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prettygoodwordmignon (min-YON, mee-NYAWN) - adj., small, petit, dainty, pretty.
Which pronunciation you use depends on how French you can manage -- the first is the Anglicized version. It was borrowed form French in the 1550s, when it meant as in English, but in Middle French it meant lover, darling, favourite, from Old French mignot, dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind, from a Germanic root (probably Frankish) meaning love, friendship, affection, memory, ultimately from the PIE root that also gives us mind.
---L.
Which pronunciation you use depends on how French you can manage -- the first is the Anglicized version. It was borrowed form French in the 1550s, when it meant as in English, but in Middle French it meant lover, darling, favourite, from Old French mignot, dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind, from a Germanic root (probably Frankish) meaning love, friendship, affection, memory, ultimately from the PIE root that also gives us mind.
---L.
