monie

English

Noun

monie

1. Archaic spelling of money.

Anagrams

• Noemi, Omine

Middle English

Noun

monie

1. Alternative form of moneye

Old French

Alternative forms

• munie (Roland)
• moigne, muigne, moingne, moengne, moengne (with palatalization of /nj/ to /ɲ/)
• moinne, muine, moine (with metathesis of /nj/ to /jn/)
• mosnie, moisne (silent ⟨s⟩)
• moune, monne

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus.

Noun

monie oblique singular, m (oblique plural monies, nominative singular monies, nominative plural monie)

1. monk

Coordinate terms

• nonain f

Descendants

• Middle French: moine, moyne
  • French: moine
• Norman: mouaine, mouène
• Walloon: moenne

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŏnăchus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 64

Yola

Alternative forms

• monnie

Etymology

From Middle English monie, from Anglo-Norman muneie, from Latin monēta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊˈniː/

Noun

monie

1. money

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57