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Where does “mintiness” come from?

mintiness (English) comes from English minty, from English mint, from Middle English minten, from Hungarian menten, from Hungarian mente, from Hungarian ment, from Hungarian mén, from Hungarian megy — to go.

mintiness (English): The state or condition of being minty

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being minty

Ancestry of “mintiness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmintyHaving a flavour or essence of mint
2EnglishmintA building or institution where money is...
3Middle EnglishmintenAlternative form of mynten
4Hungarianmentenat once, on the spot, immediately
5Hungarianmenteleaving from somewhere; going somewhere; the...
6Hungarianmentto rescue, to save; third-person singular past of...
7Hungarianménstallion; archaic third-person singular...
8Hungarianmegyto go
9Proto-Uralicmene-to go
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