Where does “mines” come from?

mines (Latin) comes from Latin mino, from Latin minor, from Latin minae, from Proto-Italic *eksmenā.

mines (Latin): second-person singular present active subjunctive...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive...

Ancestry of “mines”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinminoI drive; I impel; I threaten
2Latinminorcomparative degree of parvus; lesser, inferior,...
3Latinminaeprojecting points, pinnacles, battlements,...
4Proto-Italic*eksmenā—
Every word from Proto-Italic *eksmenā →Every word from Latin minae →Every word from Latin minor →