English
money
/ˈmʌn.i/
A generally accepted means of exchange.
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Origin
From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.
In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azerbaijani or Turkmen.
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Lineage
- inheritedMiddle Englishmoneye
- borrowedAnglo-Normanmuneie
- derivedOld Frenchmonoie
- derivedOld Frenchmoneie
- inheritedLatinmonēta “place for making coins, coined money”
- derivedLatinMonēta
- inheritedLatinmonēta “place for making coins, coined money”
- derivedOld Frenchmoneie
- derivedOld Frenchmonoie
- borrowedAnglo-Normanmuneie
- rootProto-Indo-European*men- (think)
Related: English fee, English mint (doublet)
Words built on it: money-love
Sources
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: money