Feminine
Minne
Meaning
- (archaic, feminine, humorous, no-plural, poetic) romantic love
- (Middle-Ages, feminine, historical, no-plural) courtly love; a kind of chivalrous, serving love by a knight for a noblewoman, generally secret and sometimes adulterous
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Hyphenated as
Min‧ne
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɪnə/
Etymology
Borrowed in the Romantic era from Middle High German minne, from Old High German minna (“loving remembrance”); from Proto-Germanic *minjō.
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