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
Concepts
love
courtly love
tender passion
Frequency
Hyphenated as
Min‧ne
Gender
♀️ Feminine
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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