minor

English

/ˈmaɪnə/, /ˈmaɪnɚ/

adj
Definitions
  • Of little significance or importance.
  • (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
  • (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

Etymology

Root from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (small, change, little, strengthen, exchange, bind, fix, build fortifications fences, fence, attach, share, tie, soil, go past, fasten, wander).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*mey-

Gloss

small, change, little, strengthen, exchange, bind, fix, build fortifications fences, fence, attach, share, tie, soil, go past, fasten, wander

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Kanji

小

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