name
Meaning 1
A city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
mino
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnəʊ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
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General-American: /ˈmɪnoʊ/
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General-American: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
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homophone: minnow
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪnəʊ/
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General-American: /ˈmaɪnoʊ/
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CMU ARPABET: M IY1 N OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 3
Archaic form of myna (“type of bird”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).
Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese: 美濃 /美浓 (Měinóng) — city in Japan
- Japanese: 美濃 — city in Japan