mien

From French mine (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), appearance, perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /miːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophone: mean

mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)

1. (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
   • 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:[2]

     Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.

   • 1860, July 1860, exact date unknown (lyrics and music), “Stephen Foster”, in Jenny's coming o'er the green‎:

     Jenny's coming o'er the green, / Fairer form was never seen, / Winning is her gentle mien; / Why do I love her so?

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 7, in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‎:

     taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.

2. (countable) A specific facial expression.
   • 2007, February 10, “Claudia La Rocco”, in Stony Miens and Sad Hearts‎:

     It’s hard to say which is worse: the press-on smiles favored by many a ballet dancer, or the stony “I’m going to pretend this isn’t happening to me” miens often found in contemporary troupes like White Road.

• Emin, Mine, mine

From Middle French mien, from Old French meon, from Latin meum, the neuter of meus.

• IPA^(key): /mjɛ̃/

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mien (feminine singular mienne, masculine plural miens, feminine plural miennes)

1. (archaic) my

• le mien (“mine”)

• mon, ma, mes

• “mien” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• mine, miné

Latin meum.

mien

1. (stressed) my; mine

• chiefly used after an article (un, le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context

  un mien fils

  my son

  enveierai le mien

  I will send mine

• French: mien

From English main.

mien

1. main

mien

1. my

• dien (your, thy)
• sien (his)
• mie (me)
• ons (our)
• onsa (us)

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi̯ɛn/

mien

1. genitive plural of mena

mien

1. genitive plural of meno

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mien f

1. carrot

mien

1. common, communal
2. common, everyday
3. general

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• mienskip

• “mien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011