meanbh

mean, meanbh

small, Early Irish menbach, small particle: *mino-, *minvo-, root min; Latin minus, English diminish, Latin minor, minutus, minute; Greek $$Gminúqw, lessen; Gothic minus, less: root mi, mei. See mi-. Stokes gives also an alternate root men, Sanskrit manâk, a little, Latin mancus, mamed, Lithuanian mènkas, little.