Word info

myn

Speech parts

1. myn - Noun

2. myn - Adjective

Meaning


myn (plural myns)

Obsolete form of mine.


myn (not comparable)

Obsolete form of mean.


myn (plural myns)

Obsolete form of mean.


myn pl (plural only)

(very rare, chiefly humorous) Alternative spelling of men (plural of man)

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Als thai haf wryten and sayd Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd, In symple speche as I couthe, That is lightest in mannes mouthe. I mad noght for no disours, Ne for no seggers, no harpours, Bot for the luf of symple men That strange Inglis can not ken. Robert Mannyng

And therewith kest I doun myn eye ageyne, Quhare as I sawe, walking under the tour, Full secretly new cummyn hir to pleyne, The fairest or the freschest yonge floure That ever I sawe, me thoght, before that houre, For quhich sodayn abate anon astert The blude of all my body to my hert. James I of Scotland

Tyndall (who assuredlie sheweth himself in myn opynyon rather to be replete with venymous envye rancour and malice then with any good lerning vertue knowlage or discression). Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

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