The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Appendix I
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY:
mei-no-
DEFINITION:
Opinion, intention. 1.moan, from Old English *mn, opinion, complaint, from Germanic *main-.2.mean1; bemoan, from Old English mnan, to signify, tell, complain of, moan, from Germanic *mainjan. (Pokorny mei-no- 714.)
n, opinion, complaint, from Germanic *main-. 2. mean1; bemoan, from Old English m
nan, to signify, tell, complain of, moan, from Germanic *mainjan. (Pokorny mei-no- 714.) 
