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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.
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).