Etymograph

English

mine

Mine comes from Middle English min, from Old English mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz ‘my’, from PIE *méynos.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méynosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*mīnaz‘my’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mīn‘my’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150mīn
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500min
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1610–1611mine

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méynosreconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*mīnaz‘my’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*mīn‘my’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150mīn
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500min
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1610–1611mine

Earliest quotation: 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest: “[…] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that…”

Linked words

through Old English mīn

my, 1 more

through Middle English min

min, 1 more

Another origin of mine

  1. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEmina
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400mine
  3. Englishtodaysame form

Another origin of mine

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentmine
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

pron Used predicatively.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *méynos / mine

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