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单词 Indo-European root: men-
释义
‌‌men-1
To think; with derivatives referring to various qualities and states of mind and thought.
Derivatives include mind, mention, automatic, mania, money, monster, mosaic, music, and amnesia.
  1. Zero-grade form *mn̥‑.
    1. Suffixed form *mn̥-ti‑.
      1. mind, from Old English gemynd, memory, mind, from Germanic *ga-mundi‑ (*ga‑, collective prefix; see kom);
      2. mental1; amentia, dement, from Latin mēns (stem ment‑), mind;
      3. mention, from Latin mentiō, remembrance, mention.
    2. Suffixed form *mn̥-to‑. automatic, from Greek -matos, "willing.".
    3. Suffixed form *mn̥-yo‑.
      1. maenad, from Greek mainesthai, to be mad;
      2. Ahriman, from Avestan mainiiuš, spirit.
      1. mania, maniac, manic, from Greek maniā, madness;
      2. balletomane, from Greek -manēs, ardent admirer.
  2. Full-grade form *men‑.
    1. Suffixed form *men-ti‑.
      1. minnesinger, from Old High German minna, love;
      2. minikin, from Middle Dutch minne, love. Both a and b from Germanic *minthjō.
      1. memento, from Latin reduplicated form meminisse, to remember;
      2. comment, from Latin comminīscī, to contrive by thought (com‑, intensive prefix; see kom);
      3. reminiscent, from Latin reminīscī, to recall, recollect (re‑, again, back; see re-);
      4. possibly Latin Minerva, name of the goddess of wisdom Minerva.
      1. mentor, from Greek Mentōr, Mentor, man's name (probably meaning "adviser");
      2. -mancy, mantic, mantis, from Greek mantis, seer (vocalism obscure).
    2. mandarin, mantra, from Sanskrit mantraḥ, counsel, prayer, hymn.
    3. Suffixed form men-es‑. Eumenides, from Greek menos, spirit.
  3. O-grade form *mon‑.
    1. Suffixed (causative) form *mon-eyo‑. monish, monition, monitor, monster, monument, muster; admonish, demonstrate, premonition, summon, from Latin monēre, to remind, warn, advise.
    2. Suffixed o-grade form *mon-twa. mosaic, Muse, museum, music, from Greek Mousa, a Muse.
  4. Extended form *mnā‑, contracted from *mnaə‑.
    1. amnesia, amnesty, anamnesis, from Greek reduplicated form mimnēskein, to remember.
    2. mnemonic, from Greek mnēmōn, mindful.
    3. Mnemosyne, from Greek mnēmē, memory.
  5. Indo-European verb phrase *mens dhē‑, "to set mind" (*dhē‑, to put; see dhē-) underlying compound noun *mn̥s-dhē‑. Ahura Mazda, Mazdaism, Ormazd, from Avestan mazdā‑, wise.
[Pokorny 3. men‑ 726, mendh‑ 730.]
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