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Harsusi
men - from; negative of an order; lest; than, than that; when, from the time that
(HL 89)
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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).