Proto-Indo-European

*men-

‘to think’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *men-.

164 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *men-, most familiar first.

• money ← moneye ← muneie ← monoie ← moneie
• music ← musik ← musik ← mūsica ← μουσική
• mind ← minde ← mynd ← *mundi ← *mundiz
• amount ← amounten ← amonter ← amont ← mont
• comment ← coment ← coment ← commentum
• mental ← mentālis ← mēns ← *mentis ← *méntis
• mouth ← mūþ ← *munþ ← *munþaz ← *mn̥-tó-s
• remain ← remainen ← remaneō ← maneō ← *m(V)nēō
• mention ← mencioun ← mentiōnem ← mentiō ← meminī
• mountain ← mountayne ← muntaine ← montānia ← montem
• museum ← Μουσεῖον ← Μοῦσᾰ
• permanent ← permanēns ← permaneō ← maneō ← *m̥néh₁yeti

More words from *men-

• monster
• auto
• mount
• min
• monitor
• monetary
• demonstration
• mentor
• monk
• mint
• monument
• maya
• dementia
• monte
• imminent
• monastery
• amnesty
• muse
• mosaic
• eminent
• summon
• menace
• ming
• prominence
• mas
• mandarin
• mantra
• monumental
• mindful
• summons
• mont
• mania
• muster
• monstrous
• amnesia
• manic
• remnant
• eminence
• mantis
• monastic
• minion
• mons
• mun
• demented
• memento
• menagerie
• menial
• reminisce
• monstrosity
• permanence
• automaton
• mignon
• montero
• demonstrative
• minnow
• mnemonic
• demean
• reminiscence
• manet
• admonition
• mone
• minter
• monad
• manas
• montane
• admonish
• surmount
• mentee
• permanency
• menton
• saman
• automat
• dement
• maisonette
• minch
• manoir
• emend
• mignonette
• montre
• monstrance
• necromantic
• mantic
• monton
• manometer
• maenad
• messuage
• monomorphic
• remanent
• admonitory
• manometry
• mentum
• minikin
• mouthless
• mentalis
• monstruous
• minatory
• musea
• mathesis
• admonitor
• automatize
• automatous
• autodifferentiation
• commination
• commonition
• demonstre
• demency
• hydromancy
• maenor
• manoscope
• mantology
• manograph
• manoxylic
• mentula
• meinie
• menticide
• minaceous
• minacious
• minchen
• minacity
• migniard
• mignardise
• minaciously
• minaciousness
• minnock
• mneme
• monimolimnion
• montante
• monition
• monture
• monstrate
• montuno
• montuous
• monimolite
• montanic
• moniment
• monstration
• monticulus
• monimostyly
• monjita
• monorotor
• muntin
• mythomaniac
• mythomane
• oomancy
• permansive
• permonish
• photomancy
• promontorium
• promnesia
• premonstrator
• remanet
• umbramancy

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *men-