Where does “minie” come from?

minie (Middle Dutch) comes from Latin minium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

Ancestry of “minie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinminiumnative cinnabar; red lead, minium
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “minie”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Latin minium →
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