Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mintā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin menta, mentha.

Noun

*mintā f^[1]

mint

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mintā
Genitive	*mintōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mintā	*mintōn
Accusative	*mintōn	*mintōn
Genitive	*mintōn	*mintōnō
Dative	*mintōn	mintōm, mintum
Instrumental	*mintōn	mintōm, mintum

Descendants

Old English: minte
- Middle English: mynte, mente, mint, minte, mynt
  - English: mint
  - Scots: mint
  - → Welsh: mint
Old Frisian: *minta
- ⇒ Saterland Frisian: Minte
Old Saxon: minta
- Middle Low German: minte, münte
  - Plautdietsch: Mints
  - → Old Norse: minta
    - Old Danish: myntæ, mintæ
      - Danish: mynte
    - Norwegian:
      - Norwegian Bokmål: minte
      - Norwegian Nynorsk: minte (dialectal mynta)
    - Old Swedish: mynta
      - Swedish: mynta
    - → Finnish: minttu
Old Dutch: *minta
- Middle Dutch: mente, minte
  - Dutch: munt
Old High German: minza
- Middle High German: minze
  - German: Minze
  - Yiddish: מינץ (mints)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *mintā”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *mintā”

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