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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "meinen" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "meinen" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
Hmmm, I’m a little confused now. In a lot of the examples above, meinen is being used completely in a basic possessive state. MY boyfriend, MY laptop, MY fridge, et al. That isn’t in your description but seems obvious. However, I have seen elsewhere and in many comments here on YDG people using it much closer to what your description is and edging towards what they believe/say/opine, and of that there are no examples. I wish there were more examples of that and (Ich meine…) the addition of possessive-ness should be in the definition.
This one here, meinen is a verb: ich meine bla bla bla
(=I mean bla bla bla)
You are talking about another word which looks like meinen, but is actually just “mein” + an ending. It is a pronoun which express possessiveness: mein Laptop (=my laptop), meine Katze (=my cat), ich sage meiner Mutter etwas (=I tell my mother something). The ending change, but the root “mein” stay the same. This is called declension.
You can find the relevant information here:
https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/ich-5/mein/
I suggest you to read about german declension.
Oh, not sure why I didn’t anser to the original comment, but you’re completely right. This entry is for the verb “meinen”.
For the pronoun “meinen”, the entry is “mein”.