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Where does “squaw mint” come from?

squaw mint (English) comes from English mint, from Middle English minten, from Hungarian menten, from Hungarian mente, from Hungarian ment, from Hungarian mén, from Hungarian megy, from Proto-Uralic mene- — to go.

squaw mint (English): Hedeoma pulegioides, the American pennyroyal

Definitions

  1. Hedeoma pulegioides, the American pennyroyal

Ancestry of “squaw mint”, step by step

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