Where does “menow” come from?

menow (Middle English) comes from Old English mynwe, from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu, from Indo-European *men-.

Ancestry of “menow”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishmynwe
2Proto-West Germanic*muniwusmall fish, minnow
3Indo-European*men-

Words derived from “menow

Every word from Indo-European *men-
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