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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1772: from protSem *m˅n˅y‑ ‘to want’ (Dolgopolsky2012: *√mny ‘to wish, desire’), perh. from AfrAs *min‑ ‘dto.’ (basis for reconstruction weak). Cf., however, foll. paragraph.
▪ Militarev&Kogan2000 (SED I vb#41): The original meaning of the Sem vb., *mny, preserved in Ar, was prob. *‘to discharge sperm, excude vaginal secretion’ with a shift to ‘to have sexual desire’ (cf. vb. X) and further to ‘desire, wish, want’ and ‘love’ in general (munyaẗ, ʔumniyyaẗ, mannà, tamannà).

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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1772: Soq mny, Gz mny, Tña mny ‘to want’. – Outside Sem: min ‘to want’ in 1 CCh language.
▪ Dolgopolsky2012#1433: Akk menû ‘to love, be(come) fond (of s.o.)’, Ar √mny (G-stem) ‘to let flow sperm (as in copulation)’, muniya (pass.) ‘to be favored in’, tamannà (Dt-stem) ‘to desire, wish’, Gz tamannaya (Dt) ‘to wish, desire, be eager for’, mənuy ‘who wishes ardently; wished for, desired’, Mhr ˈmatni, Ḥrs ˄mtōni, Jib E/C ˈmutni (sbjv. yɛmˈtin), Soq ˈmɔtɛnɛʔ (sbjv. l-imˈtɛnɛw) ‘to wish’. – Outside Sem: (CCh:) Ms mìn ‘to wish, desire, love; to want’, Azm minda ‘to will, desire, like’. – Compare perh. even (IE:) AnglSax myne (n.) ‘desire, love’, oFries minne, oSax minnea, oHGe minna, nHGe Minne n. ‘love’, mHGe meinen ‘to love’.

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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1772: protSem *m˅n˅y‑ ‘to want’ (based on Ar, Soq, Gz, Tña), protCCh *min‑‘to want’ (based on only 1 lang), both from hypothetical AfrAs *min‑ ‘to want’.
▪ Dolgopolsky2012#1433 reconstructs protSem *√mny ‘to wish, desire’ (with poss. interference of Nostr *mon̄˅, see Ar ↗manā~manà) and CCh ‘to wish, desire, love; to want’, NaIE *men- (loss of the glide *i̯ preceding a sonant) ‘to wish eagerly’, all from hypothetical Nostr *mAyn˅ ‘desire’.
▪ Any relation betw. ‘semen, sperm’ (> ‘wish, desire’) and the complex ‘fate, destiny, lot; death; (goddess) Manāẗ’ treated s.vv. ↗man^an and ↗Manāẗ?

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►mannà, vb. II, 1a to awaken the desire, make s.o. hope, give reason to hope, raise hopes; 1b to promise: D‑stem, caus.
►ʔamnà, vb. IV, 1 to shed (blood); 2 to emit, ejaculate (sperm): *Š‑stem.
►^BP#451tamannà, vb. V, to desire, wish: Dt‑stem.
►ĭstamnà, vb. X, to practice onanism, masturbate: *Št‑stem, desiderative.

►minawī, adj., seminal, spermativ: nisba formation of min^an
►munyaẗ, var. minyaẗ, pl. mun^an, def. al‑munà, n.f., 1 wish, desire; 2 object of desire
►^BP#3492ʔumniyyaẗ, pl. ʔamānⁱⁿ, def. al‑ʔamānī, n.f., wish, demand, claim, desire, longing, aspiration
►tamniyaẗ, n.f., and ʔimnāʔ, n., emission, ejaculation of the sperm: vn. II and IV, resp.
►tamannⁱⁿ, def. al‑tamannī, pl. ‑āt, n., wish; desire; request: vn. V.
►ĭstimnāʔ, n., self‑pollution, masturbation, onanism: vn. X.

For other items of the root, cf. ↗manā~manà, ↗manan, ↗Manāẗ, ↗munyaẗ~minyaẗ, and, for the general picture, ↗√MNW/Y.

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