Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian menote , mente , munte , Middle Dutch munte , muynte , monte , moente (Dutch munt ), Old Saxon munita (Middle Low German münte , mönte ), Old High German muniz (masculine), munizza , muniza (feminine; Middle High German münze , German Münze ), and (probably via Old English or Middle Low German) Old Icelandic mynt , Old Swedish mynte (Swedish mynt ), Old Danish mynt (Danish mønt ) < classical Latin monēta money n.With sense 2 compare Old English mynetsmiððe (in an isolated attestation) and mint v.²; the sense is recorded alongside ‘coin’ for most of the Germanic cognates, as also for classical Latin monēta (see discussion s.v. money n.).

Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch minte, Old Saxon minta (Middle Low German minte), Old High German minza (Middle High German minze, minz, German Minze) < classical Latin menta, mentha, probably borrowed, like ancient Greek μίνθη (in Hellenistic Greek also μίνθος), from an unidentified source. Compare Middle Dutch munte, muynte, muente (Dutch munt), Old High German munza (German Münze) which show unexplained variation in the stem vowel.The form mente (compare Middle Dutch mente) may perhaps be influenced by Anglo-Norman, Old French mente (c1200; French menthe).

Etymology: Either < mint v.¹, or aphetic < Old English gemynt purpose, intention (see below), itself either similarly formed < gemyntan (see mint v.¹) or (as suggested by Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. imīnte) perhaps a variant of i-mind n. remodelled after gemyntan.lOE tr. R. d'Escures Sermo in Festis Sancte Marie Virginis in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 135 For þeh heo Josepe gehandfæst wære, þehhweðere he hæfde anrædlice on hire gemynte, þæt heo næfre weres gemænnysse nolde cunnen.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant (with elision of the vowel of the second syllable) of minute n.¹ (compare mint-while n.). Sense 2 presumably shows the same word as sense 1, perhaps arising by analogy with the homophony of mite n.¹ and mite n.²Recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. from southern and midland counties of England.

Etymology: Short for mint condition n.

Etymology: Perhaps < min n.¹ + Old English -ettan, suffix forming frequentative verbs; or perhaps < a variant of the Germanic base of i-mind n. (perhaps compare West Frisian muntsje , Middle Dutch (late), Dutch munten to aim at, to allude to). Compare i-munte v. Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. records use from Scotland, Ireland, northern English counties, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and East Anglia.

Etymology: In Old English, cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch munten , muynten (Dutch munten ), Old High German munizōn (Middle High German, German münzen ) < the Germanic base of mint n.¹ (unless independently formed in each language). In later use re-formed < mint n.¹The word apparently became obsolete at the end of the Old English period and was re-formed in the 16th cent. In Old English the prefixed form gemynetian is also attested (compare quot. c1425 at sense 2a).