mixen

From Middle English myxen, from Old English mixen, myxen, from meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīgan, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą (“to urinate”); akin to German Mist (“manure”).

mixen (plural mixens)

1. A compost heap; a dunghill.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 36:

     [I]f we have fish at all / Let them be gold; and charge the gardeners now / To pick the faded creature from the pool, / And cast it on the mixen that it die.

• enmix

Borrowed from English mix.

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mixen

1. plural of mix

mixen

1. mix

   (Brabant):

   Edet na al gemixt jong?!

   Have you now already mixed it?!

Conjugation of mixen (weak)
infinitive	mixen
past singular	mixte
past participle	gemixt
infinitive	mixen
gerund	mixen n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	mix	mixte
2nd person sing. (jij)	mixt, mix2	mixte
2nd person sing. (u)	mixt	mixte
2nd person sing. (gij)	mixt	mixte
3rd person singular	mixt	mixte
plural	mixen	mixten
subjunctive sing.1	mixe	mixte
subjunctive plur.1	mixen	mixten
imperative sing.	mix
imperative plur.1	mixt
participles	mixend	gemixt
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Borrowed from English mix, from Middle English mixen, partially inherited from Old English mixen, and partially from a backformation of Old French mixte, itself a borrowing from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere. Doublet of mischen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪksən/, [ˈmɪksn̩], [ˈmɪksən]

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• Hyphenation: mi‧xen

mixen (weak, third-person singular present mixt, past tense mixte, past participle gemixt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, especially of drinks) to mix (cause two or more substances to become combined or united)

   Synonym: mischen

2. (transitive, music) to mix (combine several tracks; produce a finished version)

   Synonym: mischen

• Mixer
• vermixen

• Mix

• “mixen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “mixen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “mixen” in Duden online
• “mixen” in OpenThesaurus.de

• myxen, meoxen

From meohx, meox (“dung, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīgan, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą (“to urinate”).

mixen f

1. a mixen; a dungheap; a dunghill

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mixen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.