Trade, money & letters

mint (coins)

The same Latin monēta that gave 'money' was borrowed far earlier into West Germanic, before English existed, and wore down to Old English mynet 'coin' and modern 'mint'. German Münze, Dutch munt, Swedish mynt and Czech mince are the same early loan.

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The road to English

From Latin to Old High German, Middle High German, German

From Middle High German to Czech

From Latin to Middle Dutch, Dutch

From Old English to Old Norse, Swedish

From Old Norse to Danish

From Old Norse to Icelandic

100 BCELatin

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