mitaine
Dutch
Pronunciation
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. See also minet (“cat”) and Provençal mino (“female cat”), both of expressive origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.tɛn/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛn
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: mitaine
- → Russian: мите́нка (miténka)
Further reading
- “mitaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “mitten”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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