Maund definition
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Origin of maund
- Hindi mān from Sanskrit mānam measure from mimīte mā- he measures mē-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English maunde, mande, from Old English mand, mond (“basket"), from Proto-Germanic *mandō (“basket"). Cognate with Dutch mand, Low German mande, archaic German Mande, later influenced by Anglo-Norman and Middle French mande (< Germanic). Related to mannequin.
From Wiktionary
- Anglicised pronunciation of a word in many southern and western Asian languages. The -d probably from assimilation with Etymology 1 above, or from comparison with pound.
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