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Syriac
men - from, out of, from within
(LSyr. 393. SL 779)
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).