See also *mlk ‘to rule’, PArm *mlk ‘to advise’ and Akk. malāku and milku where the meaning of latter two has been often considered as a semantic source of PWS *mal(i)k- ‘king’: “counsellor, he whose opinion is decisive” (BDB 272, LSyr. 391 and Kogan 2015:92, 419).
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).