Where does “maint” come from?

maint (Middle French) comes from Old French maint, from Frankish menigda, from Proto-Germanic managiþō, from Proto-Indo-European monegʰ- — many.

maint (Middle French): many; a lot of

Definitions

  1. many; a lot of

Ancestry of “maint”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmaintvery; a lot; many
2Frankishmenigda
3Proto-Germanicmanagiþōquantity; amount; multitude
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmonegʰ-many

Words derived from “maint

Every word from Proto-Indo-European monegʰ-
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