menen
Middle English
verb
Definitions
- to intend, to mean to indicate or signify
- to intend, to mean to do something, or that something will be the case; to plan
- to say, to express
- to remember; to recall or bear in mind
- to advise or admonish or remind (someone of something)
- to complain of, to lament
- to lament, to mourn (for)
- to pity, to comfort
Etymology
Derived from Old English mǣnan (lament, mean, signify, intend, complain over, grieve, mourn).
Origin
Old English
mǣnan
Gloss
lament, mean, signify, intend, complain over, grieve, mourn
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Cognates and derived terms
- bemean English
- demean English
- geomean English
- intermean English
- mean English
- meanable English
- meanest English
- meaneth English
- meanie English
- meaning English
- meanish English
- meanless English
- meanling English
- meanly English
- meanness English
- meanship English
- meantime English
- meantone English
- meanwhile English
- meany English
- mismean English
- semimean English
- trimean English
- unmean English
- whaddayamean English
- *mainijaną Proto-Germanic
- bemænan Old English
- mǣnan Old English
- mên Welsh