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PWS
*min - from
(Arakelova 2001:39, Kogan 2015: 91–92)
Lipiński (1997:465) traces this preposition back to the PS root *mny ‘to count, to measure’, which is highly improbable (Arakelova 2001:41).
Words
Ebla
mi-nu /minnu/
- from
(Tonietti 1997:83‒84, Archi 2002:13‒14, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 682)
Different from
mi-in
‘in, at’ at least synchronically.
Phoenician
mn
- from
(Tomback 1978:184)
Hebrew
min
- from, out of
(HALOT 597)
Syriac
men
- from, out of, from within
(LSyr. 393. SL 779)
Mandaic
mn-, min-
- from, out of, (some) of; with
(MD 273, 267)
The form min- is attested almost exclusively with pronominal suffixes. It is very rarely used as an independent preposition.
Arabic
min
- from
(Lane 3024)
Geez
ˀəmənna
- from, out of
(CDG 25)
Var. ˀəm.
Tigre
mən
- from
(WTS 126)
Mehri
mən
- from, out of
(ML 267)
Jibbali
mən
- from
(JL 172)
Harsusi
men
- from; negative of an order; lest; than, than that; when, from the time that
(HL 89)
Soqotri
men
- from, of
(LS 245, CSOL I 610, CSOL II 537)