The word mine in other languages

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: mīn, IPA^(key): /maɪ̯n/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.

Alternative forms[edit]

• myne (obsolete)

Pronoun[edit]

mine

1. That which belongs to me.
   1. Used predicatively.

      The house itself is mine, but the land is not.

   2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.

      Mine has been a long journey.

   3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.

      Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.

   4. Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

Determiner[edit]

mine

1. My; belonging to me.
   1. (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.

      • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

        […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain’d ambition, / […]

   2. (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.
      • 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, «The Battle Hymn of the Republic», in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume IX, Number LII, page 10,

        Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]

      • 1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,

        Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody…

Usage notes[edit]

• My and mine are essentially two forms of the same word, with my being used attributively before the noun, and mine being used in all other cases, as may be seen in most of the usage examples and quotations above. In this respect, this word is analogous to most of the other possessive pronouns (e.g. your vs. yours), as well as a number of other noun modifiers, such as lone/alone.
• Historically, my came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, mine still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above, and in the most formal of writing even into the 20th century.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

Noun[edit]

mine (plural mines)

1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

   This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.

   He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.

   Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.

2. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.

   She’s a mine of information.

   • 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:

     To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook’s Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.

3. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
4. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.

   His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.

   The warship was destroyed by floating mines.

   • 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:

     Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; […].

5. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.

   Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.

2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
   • 1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines

     Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.

3. (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).

   We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.

4. (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.

   the mining cony

6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.

   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

     They mined the walls.

   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.

7. (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. (slang) To pick one’s nose.
10. (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    Coordinate term: mint

    • 2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin’s Climate Problem”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

      Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from French mine.

Noun[edit]

mine (plural mines)

1. Alternative form of mien

Anagrams[edit]

• Emin, Mien, mien

Aromanian[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mine

1. Alternative form of mini

Crimean Gothic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

Noun[edit]

mine

1. moon
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Mine. Luna.

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɪnɛ
• Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Verb[edit]

mine

1. third-person singular future indicative of minout

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /miːnə/, [ˈmiːnə], [ˈmiːn̩]

Noun[edit]

mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)

1. look, air, mien
2. (military) mine
3. pit

Inflection[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

mine

1. (possessive) plural of min

See also[edit]

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /min/
• Rhymes: -in
• Homophones: minent, mines

Etymology 1[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

Noun[edit]

mine f (plural mines)

1. mine (excavation or explosive)
2. pencil lead
3. (soccer) piledriver, scorcher

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *mēnis, in the sense of «red»)^[1], or from Italian mina, from Latin minio (“to redden”).^[2]

Noun[edit]

mine f (plural mines)

1. appearance, physical aspect; expression

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

From miner.

Verb[edit]

mine

1. inflection of miner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading[edit]

• “mine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• mien

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪnʲə/

Adjective[edit]

mine

1. inflection of mion:
   1. genitive feminine singular
   2. comparative degree

Noun[edit]

mine f

1. genitive singular of min

Mutation[edit]

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

mine f

1. plural of mina

Anagrams[edit]

• meni

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mine

1. Rōmaji transcription of みね

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Old French mine.

Noun[edit]

mine f

1. ore vein, mine

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

• Dutch: mijn
• Limburgish: mien

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner[edit]

mine

1. inflection of mijn:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Further reading[edit]

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “mine (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Middle English[edit]

Determiner[edit]

mine (subjective pronoun I)

1. Alternative form of min

Pronoun[edit]

mine (subjective I)

1. Alternative form of min

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Pronunciation[edit]

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Noun[edit]

mine f or m (definite singular mina or minen, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms[edit]

Determiner[edit]

mine

1. plural of min

References[edit]

• “mine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /²miːnə/

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.

Noun[edit]

mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

Derived terms[edit]

• minefelt

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative mine/min)

1. Alternative form of mina

Etymology 3[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner[edit]

mine

1. plural of min

References[edit]

• “mine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Phuthi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun[edit]

miné

1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

mine

1. inflection of minar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin mē, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *mēne, or through analogy with cine, from *quene, from quem. It also possibly acquired this ending through adopting the common Latin accusative inflection -inem. Compare tine, sine. Compare also Aromanian mini, Dalmatian main, Neapolitan mene.

Pronoun[edit]

mine (stressed accusative form of eu)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as «pe», «cu», «la», or «pentru») me

   mă iubești pe mine? ― Do you love me?

[edit]

• mă (unstressed form)

See also[edit]

• tine
• sine

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

mine

1. plural of mină

Scots[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /məin/

Pronoun[edit]

mine

1. mine

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Noun[edit]

mine f

1. genitive singular of min

Mutation[edit]

Sidamo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Cushitic *min- (“house, to build”). Cognates include Oromo mana, Burji mina and Hadiyya mine.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmine/
• Hyphenation: mi‧ne

Noun[edit]

mine m (plural minna f)

1. house
2. household

References[edit]

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 62
• Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “mine”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmine/ [ˈmi.ne]
• Rhymes: -ine
• Syllabification: mi‧ne

Verb[edit]

mine

1. inflection of minar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Swazi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

Pronoun[edit]

miné

1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

• Defenition of the word mine

  • An opening or excavation in the earth for extracting minerals.
    (Source: MGH)
  • An explosive device, concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets as they pass over or near the device.
  • To extract from the earth by excavation.
  • a device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or kill personnel
  • a excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
  • lay mines; «The Vietnamese mined Cambodia»
  • get from the earth; of ores and metals
  • explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
  • excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
  • get from the earth by excavation; «mine ores and metals»
  • lay mines
  • get from the earth by excavation

Synonyms for the word mine

• • abundance
  • colliery
  • dig for
  • excavate
  • excavation
  • extract
  • pit
  • quarry
  • source
  • supply
  • wealth

Similar words in the mine

• • mine
  • minefield
  • minefield’s
  • minefields
  • miner
  • miner’s
  • mineral
  • mineral’s
  • mineralogist
  • mineralogist’s
  • mineralogists
  • mineralogy
  • mineralogy’s
  • minerals
  • miners
  • minerva
  • minerva’s
  • minestrone
  • minestrone’s
  • minesweeper
  • minesweeper’s
  • minesweepers

Meronymys for the word mine

• • adit
  • colliery
  • mineshaft
  • pit
  • shaft

Hyponyms for the word mine

• • booby trap
  • coal mine
  • coalpit
  • copper mine
  • countermine
  • floating mine
  • gold mine
  • goldmine
  • ground-emplaced mine
  • land mine
  • marine mine
  • salt mine
  • silver mine
  • strip mine
  • sulfur mine
  • sulphur mine
  • surface mine
  • surface-mine

Hypernyms for the word mine

• • excavation
  • exploit
  • explosive device
  • hole in the ground
  • reenforce
  • reinforce
  • tap

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