mundn.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mund (masculine) guardianship, guardian, Middle Dutch mont , mond (masculine) power, guardian (in Dutch only in compounds, as e.g. mondig independent, responsible, momboor guardian, protector, mondel ward, etc.), Old Saxon mund , munt (feminine) hand (in Middle Low German only in compounds, as e.g. mündich , müntlīk capable, of age, authorized, muntbar guardian, mündel ward, etc.), Old High German munt (feminine) hand, protection, (masculine) protector (Middle High German munt hand, protection, German Mund , Munt power of protection in Germanic law (historical), and also in compounds, as e.g. Vormund guardian, Mündel ward, mündig of age, responsible, etc.), Old Icelandic mund (feminine) hand, mundr (masculine) sum paid by a bridegroom for his bride < an extended form of the Indo-European base of classical Latin manus hand (see manus n.¹). Compare post-classical Latin munda protection, fee paid or exacted for protection (from early 12th cent. in British sources; also as monta).In Old English the word is feminine, except in the sense ‘money paid by a bridegroom to the bride's father’, where it is masculine. In Old English (as in other Germanic languages) the word is commonly found as an element in personal names, compare Ēadmund , Gūðmund , Ōsmund , Wermund , etc. Compare also mound n.² and discussion at that entry.