different between maine vs harrington

English

Noun

maine (plural maines)

1. Obsolete form of main.
   • 1624: John Donne

     No man is an Illand, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine...

Adjective

maine (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of main.

Anagrams

• -amine, I mean, amine, anime, animé, manie, minae, minæ

Cimbrian

Determiner

maine

1. vocative plural of main

Estonian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ine

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Finnish maine.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /?m?i?ne/

Noun

maine (genitive maine, partitive mainet)

1. reputation
2. prestige, renown, fame

Declension

Etymology 2

From maa +? -ne.

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /m??i?ne/

Adjective

maine (genitive maise, partitive maist)

1. earthly, worldly

Declension

Finnish

(index ma)

Etymology

main- +? -e; the root is most likely connected with mainoa (“to wonder, to praise”), a dialectal word borrowed from a Sami language (compare Northern Sami máidnut), from mainita, itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *mainijan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i?ne?/, [?m?i?ne?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?ine
• Syllabification: mai?ne

Noun

maine

1. reputation
2. prestige, renown, fame
3. (linguistics, dated) predicate

Declension

Compounds

• ennakkomaine
• jälkimaine
• maailmanmaine
• mainehaitta
• mainesana
• mainetappio
• maineteko
• sankarimaine
• sotilasmaine

Anagrams

• Minea, Naemi, anime

Middle English

Noun

maine

1. Alternative form of mayn

Occitan

Noun

maine m (plural maines)

1. (Gascony) domain

References