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mineEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mineEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mineEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mineEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Borrowed from French mine.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗INDEPENDENT SOURCE LIBRARY
More sources for this spelling
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Chambers (1908)
1908- MineEnglish · e-38538-8769
Mine, mīn, adj. pron. belonging to me: my. [A.S. mín; Ger. mein.]
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Mine, mīn, v.i. and v.t. to dig for metals: to excavate: to dig under a wall or building in order to overturn it: to ruin or destroy by secret means.—n. a place from which metals are dug: an excavation dug under a fortif
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
Feind
The modern German noun for a personal, political, military, or ideological enemy or opponent. Duden derives it through Middle High German vīnt or vīant and Old High German fīand, literally the hating one; DWDS dates Old High German fīant and fījant to the eighth century and identifies the Germanic ancestor as a petrified substantivized present participle. Grimm’s dictionary independently compares Gothic fijands, Old English fēond, English fiend, Dutch vijand, and Nordic forms, while warning that its own still-deeper foam hypothesis required confirmation. The reviewed route therefore follows the inherited enemy noun to reconstructed *fi(j)and- and *fi(j)ēn-, then treats *peh₁- as proposed and stops.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗calculate
To determine mathematically or estimate, borrowed from a Latin family built around counting with pebbles.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗king
An inherited English title continuing Old English cyning and reconstructed Germanic *kuninga-, a formation built on the Germanic kin or lineage base.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
Feind
enemy, adversary, hostile power, enemy force, or determined opponent
- DATE
- German spelling attested in 1483; modern standard headword
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
calculate
to compute, determine, estimate, or plan
- DATE
- 1542–today
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
king
a monarch; by extension a preeminent person, game piece, card, or crowned checker
- DATE
- before the 12th century–today
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 8
Does the Luke lexical swap resolve the remaining 21 noun-participle candidates?
No. Luke 1:71 and 6:27 show that fijan and hatan can exchange the work of enemies and those hating, but those two contextual alignments do not determine every other fijand- token.
Does Galatians 5:20 prove hatis always meant explosive anger?
No single verse can establish an invariant meaning. Galatians aligns plural hatiza with Greek thumoi, while other biblical contexts use orgē and Ephesians 4:31 does not permit a clean one-to-one choice. The exact semantic center of ordinary Gothic remains underdetermined by translation texts.
Are Germanic hate words unquestionably cognate with κῆδος?
No. The formal comparison is prominent enough to traverse, but the sources explicitly qualify the semantic path and do not recover one shared original sense.
Does every modern Feind literally mean one who hates?
No. The participial source is historical morphology. Modern Duden senses include personal enemy, hostile power or force, and a determined opponent of something without requiring a recoverable emotion in every token.
Does the etymology prove that every enemy truly hates?
No. Historical word formation does not determine the psychology of every referent. The corpus includes singular, plural, religious, military, and collective opponents.
Do the chess, card, and supremacy senses reveal the original meaning of king?
No. The inherited ruler title is older; the game-piece and preeminence senses are semantic extensions documented in the modern entry.
Did nice originally mean pleasant?
No. Merriam-Webster reports early foolish, wanton, silly, and simple senses; pleasant or agreeable becomes prominent much later.
Did trust begin as a legal property arrangement?
No. The historical noun centers on confidence and reliance; legal trust is one later semantic institution within the word’s wider range.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
Kind is not kin with a d—and kindness did not begin as niceness.
Kind and kin descend through separate Germanic formations and meet only at the deeper birth root. The adjective first carries natural, native, fitting, and proper senses; benevolence becomes prominent through later semantic development.
BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
Yatichaña aru pirwa: Vocabulario pedagógico aimara
Ministerio de Educación del Perú / 2020
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗Yachachinapaq shimikuna — chawpin qichwa: Vocabulario pedagógico quechua central
Ministerio de Educación del Perú / 2020
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
Old Dutch Willeram, plural friends addressed
friunt / vriend / circa 1100, source-reported
Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands — vriendwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗Wachtendonck Psalms, Psalm 55:10
fīunt / fīunt / 901–1000; surviving copy 1595–1605
Oudnederlands Woordenboek — fīuntwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗Middle Franconian rhymed text, recension A
fīunt / fīunt / 1151–1200
Oudnederlands Woordenboek — fīuntwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SEARCH IS DISCOVERY, NOT PROOF
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