Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure. · A lament or sorrow.
To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. · To grieve. · To make a moan or similar sound. · To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”). Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.
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