*méntis (word) "thought"

*méntis is a reconstructed word in the Proto-Indo-European proto-language related to psycholinguistics. It is usually translated as "thought." The Proto-Indo-European Proto-Language belongs to the language family known as Indo-European.

The reconstructed word *méntis may contain constituents like *men- (root) + *-tis (suffix)

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Other mentions of *méntis

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Source

§ 20.1. Knowledge and Thought

Mallory, OI PIE, 325. Read on OMNIKA

Constituents of *méntis

*men- (root) "think; consider"
*-tis (suffix) "a word ending that creates abstract and action nouns from verb roots"

Descendants of *méntis

Proto-Germanic: *mundi- (root) "memory, mind"
- Old English: Gemynd (gemynd · noun) "memory, mind"
  - English: Mind (noun) "the human faculty to which are ascribed thought, feeling, etc."

Citation

MLA 8

PsychLing Contributors. "*méntis." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 7 Sep. 2023, psylng.org/mli/indo/pie/méntis. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.

APA 6

PsychLing (2023, September 7). *méntis. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/mli/indo/pie/méntis

CMS 16

PsychLing Contributors. "*méntis." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created September 7, 2023. Modified September 7, 2023. Accessed December 26, 2024. https://psylng.org/mli/indo/pie/méntis.

Bibliography

Internet Archive Contributors. "Wayback Machine." San Francisco, CA: Internet Archive. Created October 24, 2001. Accessed July 21, 2023. https://web.archive.org. [Visit]

EDPG

Kroonen, Guus. Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic.Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013.

OI PIE

Mallory, James P., and Douglas Q. Adams. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Wiktionary

Wales, Jimmy D., et al. "Wiktionary: The Free Dictionary." San Francisco, CA: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Created December 12, 2002. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://wiktionary.org. [Visit]

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