Words that come from Proto-Germanic “mainijaną”

75 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-Germanic mainijaną — including mean, meanest, meanness, meaner, demean, meantone, meanie, meany.

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English (25)

Norwegian Bokmål (6)

Swedish (4)

Old Saxon (4)

Finnish (4)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Old English (3)

Old High German (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Old Dutch (2)

Yiddish (2)

Middle Low German (2)

West Frisian (1)

Dutch (1)

Danish (1)

Westrobothnian (1)

Estonian (1)

Faroese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Middle English (1)

German (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Old Frisian (1)

Middle High German (1)

Proto-Finnic (1)