maint
French
Etymology
From Middle French maint, from Old French maint, meint (“many”), from Frankish *menigda, *managda (“a large quantity, a great many”), from Proto-Germanic *managiþō (“large quantity, multitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *monegʰ- (“many”). Cognate with Middle Dutch menichte (“multitude, great number”), Middle High German mennichte (“quantity”), Old English menigdu (“group of people”). More at many.
Alternatively, the Old French could be from Gaulish *mantī, from Proto-Celtic *mantī (“quantity”) (compare Welsh maint, Old Irish méit), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₁-nt-, from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
maint (feminine mainte, masculine plural maints, feminine plural maintes)
Pronoun
maint
Further reading
- “maint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French maint.
Adjective
maint m (feminine singular mainte, masculine plural maints, feminine plural maintes)
Descendants
- French: maint (archaic)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Frankish *menigda, *managda (“a large quantity, a great many”), from Proto-Germanic *managiþō (“large quantity, multitude”), from Proto-Indo-European *monegʰ- (“many”).
Alternatively from Gaulish *mantī, from Proto-Celtic *mantī (“quantity”) (compare Welsh maint, Old Irish méit), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₁-nt-, from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Adverb
maint (invariable)
Adjective
maint m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mainte)
Declension
Synonyms
Descendants
Welsh
Etymology
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From Proto-Brythonic *mėnt, from Proto-Celtic *mantī (“quantity”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₁-nt-, from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Pronunciation
Noun
maint m (plural meintiau)
Derived terms
- meintiol (“quantitative”)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
maint | faint | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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