† i-mindn.

Etymology: Cognate with Old High German gimunt remembrance, Gothic gamunds memory, remembrance, reminder, and probably also (with regular loss of the prefix) Old Icelandic mynd image, model < the Germanic base of y- prefix + the Indo-European base of a preterite-present verb for ‘to think, remember, intend’ (see below) + an Indo-European dental suffix forming nouns (compare -th suffix¹ 1 and -t suffix³ 1). Compare (without the prefix) Middle High German munst love, joy (with analogical -s- ); also (outside Germanic) Sanskrit mati thought, intention, classical Latin ment- , mēns mind, Early Irish airmitiu consideration, reverence, Old Church Slavonic pamętĭ memory, recollection (Russian pamjat′ , compare Pamyat n.), Lithuanian mintis thought, reflection, and further (with a different dental suffix) ancient Greek -ματος that thinks (in αὐτόματος : see automaton n.). Compare later mind n.¹The preterite-present verb. The underlying Indo-European base survives in the Old English preterite-present verb munan to think about, remember and its cognates (see mone v.; also, with prefix, gemunan : see i-mune v.), all reflecting the zero-grade, as does i-mind n. The present singular paradigm of this verb shows the o-grade (compare Old Icelandic man , first person singular: see maun v.¹). Outside Germanic, compare (with o-grade) the first person singular present indicative forms ancient Greek μέμονα I have in mind, I yearn, and classical Latin meminī I remember, and (with zero-grade) the corresponding imperatives ancient Greek μεμάτω and classical Latin memento (compare memento n.). For other verbs of the preterite-present class in English compare e.g. can v.¹, dare v.¹, may v.¹, mote v.¹, owe v., and shall v. Further cognates with zero grade. With the zero grade of the same Indo-European base compare also Old English myne thought, and its cognates (see min n.¹), Old Icelandic munu , future auxiliary (see mun v.); also (outside Germanic) ancient Greek μιμνήσκειν to remember (compare automnesia n.) and its derivative μνᾶσθαι , in the same sense (compare mnemonic n.), Tocharian A mnu action of thinking, Old Church Slavonic mĭněti to think, consider, Lithuanian minėti to mention, remember, minti to recall. Further cognates with e-grade. With the full grade of the same Indo-European base compare Old Icelandic minni memory, Old Swedish minne (Swedish minne ), Danish minde memory, memorial (compare min v.²), Gothic gaminþi remembrance, anaminds suspicion, supposition, also Old High German urminni (in urminni sīn to not think of). Compare (outside Germanic) Sanskrit man- to think, manas mind, Avestan man- to think, manah- mind, ancient Greek μένος rage, Early Irish muinithir to intend, think (also ad-muinethar to remember, commemorate, do-moinethar to suppose, expect), menma mind, thought, courage, Lithuanian menas art, skill (now archaic) memory. Further cognates with o-grade. With the o -grade of the same Indo-European base compare Old English manian , monian to admonish (also with prefix gemanian , gemonian ), Old Saxon manon , Old High German manon to admonish, and also (outside Germanic) Sanskrit mān- to honour, respect (causative of man- ), classical Latin monēre to remind, advise, warn (compare e.g. admonish v.). Grammatical variation in English. In Old English both a strong feminine and a strong neuter (gemynd); an apparently weak feminine by-form (gemynde) is very occasionally attested in late Old English.