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Balantak

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Etymology

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Compare Wolio mia.

Noun

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mian

  1. person
  2. people

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Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmian]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ian
  • Hyphenation: mi‧an

Pronoun

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mian

  1. accusative singular of mia: my, mine

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish mían (desire, wish).[3]

Noun

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mian f (genitive singular méine, nominative plural mianta)

  1. desire, wish
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish mían (mineral, ore).[4]

Noun

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mian f (genitive singular méine, nominative plural mianta)

  1. ore
Declension
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mian mhian not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 207, page 104
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 163, page 62
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mían (‘mineral’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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mian

  1. Nonstandard spelling of mián.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of miǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of miàn.

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmjan/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: mian

Noun

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mian n

  1. genitive plural of miano