Proto-Semitic root
*mVnVw- ~ *ʾVmVn-
‘count’ 1, ‘test, try’ 2, ‘be certain, believe’ 3, ‘be secure, safe; make secure, protect’ 4, ‘measure, portion, share; fate’ 5
di Mino’s gloss: to count, reckon, allot; portion, fate, mina
Record 643 ↗ · SED semet 627 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A5 entries
DA-DU-MI-NEdādu-MīnōBeloved of Minos (compound theophoric name)SpeculativeSemitic13DDA-MI-NUḎā-Mīnupersonal name, 'He of the Portion' (ḏā + √m-n-y)SpeculativeSemitic13DMI+*301mināmina, portion (weight/measure unit)ProbableSemitic23DMI-NU-TEminūtamount, numberProbableSemitic43DPI-MI-NA-TEbi-minātiby the portions (broken before PI)SpeculativeSemitic1
Reflexes25 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadianmanû 1 (CAD M/1 221)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic9
- Punicmny 1 (T 186)Neo-Punic mnʾ 1 (Krahmalkov 295)gloss withheld
- Hebrewmny 1, ʔmn 3 (Kogan 2015, ch. 2 §4.2 no. 2)mānā 1 (HALOT 599)māneh 5 (HALOT 599)mānāh, pl. mānôt, 5 (HALOT 599)mənāt 5 (HALOT 603)gloss withheld
- Aramaic(Palest) hēmīn 3ʾMN 3 (Aramaic Root Atlas; DNWSI 71 apud CAL)MNY 1 (Aramaic Root Atlas; DNWSI 660)mintā 5 (HALOT 603)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root mny
- Syrian Aramaicʾamīn 3, ʾeṯʾemen 3 (LGz. 24)gloss withheld
- Amoriteʾmn 3: ʾamanum, ʾaminum, ʾaminatum, ʾamina (Gelb AS 21, 14)mnw 1: manawum, manawa, manijum, manuwum (Gelb AS 21, 25)manî 1, yamnān 1 (Buck 2019, 329)manat 5 (Buck 2019, 329)gloss withheld
- Ugariticʔimt 3 (Kogan 2015, ch. 2 §4.2 no. 2)mny 1 (Tropper UG 379)mnt 5 (DULAT 558)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicmenaʾ 1 (T 186)
- Mandaic Aramaicmnʾ 1 (T 186)
- Biblical Aramaicmnh 1 (HALOT 599)*minyān 1 (HALOT BArm. s.v. מִנְיָן)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicmnw [-u-] 2, ʔmn [-a-] 3 (Kogan 2015, ch. 2 §4.2 no. 2)ʾamina 4ʾāmanahu, ʾammanahu 4 (Lane 100)manā 2, 5 (BK 2, 1158)manan 5 (BK 2, 1159)gloss withheld
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ʾmn 4 (Al-Jallad 2026, 6)Safaitic mny 5 (Al-Jallad 2026, 93)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South Arabianʔmn 3 (Kogan 2015, ch. 2 §4.2 no. 2)ʔmn 4 (Sabaweb lemma 3552)Sab ʾmn 4, hʾmn 4, ʾmn 4 (SD 6)hʾmnn 4, ʾmn(m) 4 (Biella 20)Sab mny 5 (Biella 279)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian12
- Mehrihāmōn 3
- Harsusiʔamōn 3
- Jibbaliʔun 3
- Geezʾamna 3 (LGz. 24)ʾamna 3 (Dillmann 05469)mənnān 5 (LGz. 351)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ʾmn
- Tigreʾam(a)na 3 (HALOT 63; Wb. 356a)gloss withheld
- Soqotriʾemon 3 (LGz. 24)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyaʾamänä 3 (LGz. 24)
- Amharicammänä 3 (LGz. 24)mən(n)an 5 (LGz. 351)gloss withheld
- Gurageamänä 3 (LGz. 24)
- Harariamäna 3 (LGz. 24)
- Argobbaˀammɛn 3 (Wetter 2010:84, AAD 270 apud SEDonline 187)gloss withheld
- East EthiopicSel. Wol. amänä 3 (EDG 49 apud SEDonline 187)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.