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Where does “meng” come from?

meng (Luxembourgish) comes from Luxembourgish mengen, from Old High German meinen, from Proto-Germanic mainijaną, from Proto-Indo-European mein-.

meng (Luxembourgish): "first-person singular possessive pronoun,...

Definitions

  1. "first-person singular possessive pronoun,...

Ancestry of “meng”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Luxembourgishmengento mean; to intend; to think; to believe; to be...
2Old High Germanmeinento mean, think, name
3Proto-Germanicmainijanąto mean, think
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmein-—
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