Faroese

Noun

mynd f (genitive singular myndar, plural myndir)

1. image, picture
2. imagination (created by words)

Declension

Derived terms

• myndabók
• myndasavn
• myndagáta
• myndasøga
• myndamál
• myndalist
• myndahøggari
• myndatilfar
• hugmynd
• ljósmynd
• kykmynd
• pallmynd
• passmynd
• røntgenmynd

See also

• myndugleiki

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse mynd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

mynd f ‎(genitive singular myndar, nominative plural myndir)

1. an image, a picture

   Þetta er afar falleg mynd sem þú málaðir.‎

   This is a very nice picture you've painted.

2. a form, an image
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.‎

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

3. a movie, a film

   Eigum við að fara á einhverja mynd?‎

   Wanna go see a film?

Declension

Synonyms

• (film): kvikmynd, bíómynd

Derived terms

Welsh

Alternative forms

• myned (literary)

Etymology

Suppletive verb; verbal noun from Middle Welsh mynet, from Proto-Brythonic *moned (compare Cornish mones, Breton mont), verbal noun of Proto-Celtic *monītor (compare Middle Irish muinithir ‎(“goes around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (compare Umbrian menes ‎(“will come”), Lithuanian mìnti ‎(“to trample, scutch”)). Indicative forms from Proto-Celtic *ageti ‎(“to drive”) (compare Old Irish aigid), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (compare Latin agō). The forms in el- are from Proto-Celtic *ɸel- ‎(“to approach, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (compare Latin pellō ‎(“strike, drive”), Epic Greek πίλναμαι ‎(pílnamai, “approach”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /mɨ̞nd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mɪnd/

Verb

mynd ‎(irregular)

1. to go

   Mae hi'n mynd i Gaerdydd heno.‎ ― She's going to Cardiff tonight.

   Aeth hi ddoe.‎ ― She went yesterday.

   Awn ni ac yn edrych.‎ ― We will go and look.

   Aet ti i'r ysgol ar droed.‎ ― You went/used to go to school on foot.

   Mae'n angenrheidiol yr elwyf nawr.‎ ― It is necessary that I go now.

   Na, rwy'n mynd ar y trên bach.‎ ― No, I'm taking the little train.

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• King, Gareth (1993). Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge, pp. 183, 188, 193–94, 226. ISBN 0-415-09269-8.
• Klingebiel, Kathryn (1994). 234 Welsh Verbs: Standard Literary Forms. Belmont, Massachusetts: Ford & Bailie, pp. 195–96. ISBN 0-926689-04-5.
• Thorne, David A. (1993). A Comprehensive Welsh Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 281–85. ISBN 0-631-16408-1.
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