meina
Faroese
verb
Definitions
- to damage, to hurt
- to prevent, to avoid
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse meina derived from Middle Low German meinen derived from Old Saxon mēnian derived from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną (lament, mean, think).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*mainijaną
Gloss
lament, mean, think
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
思, 考
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- maine Finnish
- *mein- Proto-Indo-European
- *meyn- Proto-Indo-European
- mene Norwegian Bokmål
- *mainijaną Proto-Germanic
- meina Norwegian Nynorsk
- mænan Old English
- mǣnan Old English
- meina Old Norse
- mene Danish
- meina Icelandic
- meinen Old High German
- menen Old Dutch
- mēnen Old Dutch
- *mainit'ak Proto-Finnic
- meinen Middle Low German
- menen Middle Low German
- mēnen Middle Low German
- menian Old Saxon
- mēnian Old Saxon
- mäin Westrobothnian
- mēna Old Frisian