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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.
Reconstruction
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).