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Translingual

Etymology 1

Clipping of English and Latin minimum.

Symbol

min

  1. (mathematics) minimum function

Etymology 2

Clipping of English minute.

Symbol

min

  1. (metrology) minute (accepted for use with the International System of Units)

Etymology 3

Clipping of English and Minangkabau Minangkabau.

Symbol

min

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Minangkabau.

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

min (plural mins)

  1. Abbreviation of minute.
  2. (colloquial) Clipping of minute.
    Dinner's ready, darling! – Be there in a min!

Etymology 2

From Middle English min, from Old English min (less; small, mean), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (less), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (small, little). Cognate with Scots min (less, lesser), West Frisian min (small, bad), Dutch min (less, small), Low German minn (small, low, lean), German minder (less), Icelandic minna (less), Latin minus (less).

Alternative forms

Adjective

min

  1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) Less; smaller; lower.
    • Le Bone Florence (late 1300s)
      The more and the minne
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (mind, intent, desire, love), from Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (mind, memory); and also from Old Norse minni (memory), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (memory, remembrance); both from Proto-Indo-European *men- (to think). Related to Icelandic minni (memory), German Minne (love).

Noun

min (plural mins)

  1. (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.
    • 1875, Joshiah Gilbet Holland, Sevenoaks:
      [] and faith I've done that same and found me min; []

Etymology 4

From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (to bring to mind), from minni (memory). See above.

Verb

min (third-person singular simple present mins, present participle minning, simple past and past participle minned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to bring to the mind of; remind
  2. (transitive, obsolete) to remember
  3. (transitive, obsolete) to mention

Etymology 5

Alternative forms

Noun

min (plural mins)

  1. Abbreviation of minimum.
  2. (colloquial) Clipping of minimum.
    Antonym: max
    He's gotta be at least 60, min!
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Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Etymology

Derived from English did.

Particle

min

  1. Marks the past tense.

Arigidi

Pronoun

min

  1. me, first person singular pronoun, as object

References

  • B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin minō, collateral form of minor. Compare Romanian mâna, mân.

Verb

min (third-person singular present indicative minã, past participle minatã)

  1. to move

Asturian

Alternative forms

  • mi
  • me (Eastern Asturias, accusative)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmin/ [ˈmĩŋ]
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Syllabification: min

Pronoun

min

  1. me (as the object of a preposition)
  2. (Eastern Asturias) me (dative)
  3. (Western Asturias) alternative form of me

Usage notes

  • In most of Eastern Asturias (Cuenca del Sella) there is a distinction between me (accusative) and mi (dative).
Garróme en casaIt caught me at home.
Garrómilo en casaHe caught me (for me) it at home

References

  • min”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
  • Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “min”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
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Azerbaijani

More information Cyrillic, Arabic ...
More information 1,000 ...

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (thousand). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (bïŋ), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (biŋ), Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ, thousand), Turkish bin (thousand), Bashkir мең (meñ, thousand), etc.

Pronunciation

Numeral

min

  1. thousand

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information nominative, singular ...
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