Where does “Meinung” come from?

Meinung (German) comes from Chinese 美濃, from Japanese ^みの, from Chinese Mì-nùng.

Meinung (German): opinion

Definitions

  1. opinion

Ancestry of “Meinung”, step by step

Meinung traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 美濃

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese美濃Meinong District Hakka district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2Japanese^みの—
3ChineseMì-nùng—

via Middle High German meinunge

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanmeinunge—
2Old High Germanmeinunga—

Words derived from “Meinung”

Every word from Chinese Mì-nùng →Every word from Japanese ^みの →Every word from Chinese 美濃 →