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ONLINE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
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-men
Remnant of a noun-forming suffix in Latin.
From Latin
-men
'id.' From Proto-Italic *
-men
'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *
-mn̥
'id.'
Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Old Church Slavonic
-me
Hellenic
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-ma)
Armenian
Armenian
-awn
Indo-Iranian
Sanskrit
-man
, Avestan
-man