mine
French
noun
Definitions
- mine excavation or explosive
- pencil lead
- (soccer) piledriver, scorcher
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *mina derived from Gaulish *meina derived from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (ore, metal).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*mēnis
Gloss
ore, metal
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
金
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mien English
- miened English
- *mina Latin
- mina Latin
- Miene German
- mina Italian
- minare Italian
- contremine French
- minois French
- porte-mine French
- porter French
- мина Russian
- barreminas Spanish, Castilian
- buscaminas Spanish, Castilian
- mina Spanish, Castilian
- minar Spanish, Castilian
- portaminas Spanish, Castilian
- μνᾶ Ancient Greek
- mina Polish
- minka Polish
- minować Polish
- mine Old French
- mieno Esperanto
- miensimbolo Esperanto
- mina Catalan, Valencian
- mwyn Welsh
- mwynglawdd Welsh
- mwynhau Welsh
- mwyniant Welsh
- mìn Vietnamese
- mine Middle French
- *mēnis Proto-Celtic
- mían Middle Irish
- min Breton
- *muɨn Proto-Brythonic
- mina Crimean Tatar
- *meina Gaulish
- *mena, *mēnā Gaulish
- *mēnā Gaulish
- mina Chavacano