Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mīn

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mīnaz.

Determiner

*mīn[1]

my, mine

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: mīn
- Middle English: min
  - English: mine
  - Scots: mine
  - ⇒ Middle English: mi, my, mie, me (apocopated)
    - English: my
    - Scots: my, ma
Old Frisian: mīn
- North Frisian: man
- Saterland Frisian: min, mien
- West Frisian: myn
Old Saxon: mīn
- Middle Low German: mīn
  - German Low German: mien
Old Dutch: mīn
- Middle Dutch: mijn
  - Dutch: mijn
  - Limburgish: mien
Old High German: mīn
- Middle High German: mīn
  - Alemannic German: miin, myn
  - Bavarian: mia
    Cimbrian: main
  - Hunsrik: mein
  - Luxembourgish: mäin
  - German: mein
  - Vilamovian: maj
  - Yiddish: מײַן‎ (mayn)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*mīn”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*mīn”