Etymology: Aphetic < ymone n. Compare mean n.¹

Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic munr min n.¹); perhaps influenced by mone v. Compare i-mune v., i-mind n.

Etymology: Probably either < Middle Dutch mōne, moene aunt, mother (Dutch regional (Antwerp) moene mother), or < Middle Low German mȫne, moene aunt, mother, old woman; compare Old Icelandic móna mother; all < a variant (with dissimilation) of the Germanic base of mome n.¹

Etymology: < scientific Latin mona mona n. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (mō^un) /məʊn/.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Saxon munan , Old High German -monen (in firmonen to scorn), Old Icelandic muna (compare ultimately from the same base Old Icelandic munu mun v.), Old Swedish mona , Gothic munan to remember < a Germanic preterite-present verb, ultimately from the same base as i-mind n. In Middle English probably reinforced by borrowing of the corresponding early Scandinavian verb (the great majority of Middle English examples are from dialects with Scandinavian admixture), and perhaps also by aphesis < i-mune v. For other verbs of the preterite-present class in English compare can v.¹, dare v.¹, dow v.¹, may v.¹, mote v.¹ (must v.¹), owe v., shall v., tharf v., unne v., wit v.¹In Old English the prefixed form gemunan (see i-mune v.) is much more commonly attested; compare also ofmunan to recollect, onmunan to consider. N.E.D. (1906) enters quot. c1225¹ at sense 2a and quot. a1400 at sense 2b under min v.²: see note at that entry.