The Seba library treats Mnis in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Beekes, Robert, Jung, Carl Gustav, Rohde, Erwin).
A monosyllabic IE *mneh2- is represented in classical Skt. a-mnasi?u/:t [3Pl.aor.] ‘they mentioned’… It is probable that this is a root extension of *men- ‘to remember’, but its function is unclear.
This passage establishes the Indo-European etymological root *mneh₂- underlying Greek mna- forms, linking Mnis to a proto-root for memory and mention shared with Sanskrit, while acknowledging unresolved questions about its functional extension.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010thesis
μνᾶ [f.] ‘mina’, weight and a sum of money = 100 drachmae (lA). LW Sem. … A Semitic loanword. Cf. Hebr. mane, Akk. manu name of a weight.
The passage identifies the Greek μνᾶ (mina) as a Semitic loanword denoting a unit of weight and monetary value, establishing the material-economic dimension of the mna- word-family alongside its cognitive associations.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010thesis
mana is not a concept but a representation based on the perception of a ‘phenomenal’ relationship. It is the essence of Levy-Bruhl’s participatio mystique.
Jung positions mana—a phonologically and semantically proximate term—as a primitive forerunner of the concept of psychic energy, grounding it in participatory, pre-conceptual experience rather than abstract cognition.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960supporting
μνᾶ [f.] ‘mina’, .VAR Gen.-ᾱς weight and a sum (Ion.-ῆς), etc., of money Ion. μνέαι [pl.] … Ilva-alo<;, Ilvalo<; ‘weighing or worth a mina’
A parallel entry reinforcing the monetary and metrological semantics of the mna- root, documenting its derivational productivity in Greek commercial vocabulary.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010supporting
Lethe and Mnemosyne, fountains of, xiv, ii, 15i
Rohde’s index entry co-locates Mnemosyne—the personified goddess of memory whose name derives from the same mna- root—with the Lethean counterpart, foregrounding the eschatological function of remembrance in Greek soul-belief.
, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks, 1894supporting
μιμνήσκω and μνάομαι… mid., call to mind, remember, and in words, mention… the perf. has pres.
Autenrieth’s Homeric dictionary articulates the full verbal paradigm of the mna-/mimnēskō family, documenting the semantic range from interior recollection to verbal mention and courtship in archaic Greek usage.
, Homeric Dictionarysupporting
rMi-lam (T), 167 rMi-lam bar-do (T), 123
Govinda’s index references the Tibetan term rMi-lam (dream-state) in a context where phonological proximity to Mnis is incidental, though the coupling of dream and bardo reflects the same memory-consciousness nexus relevant to the mna- root.
, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism, 1960aside
it is of a spiritual order: felicity, recompense in the future life… the miżda is to be found in this kingdom and in the promised felicity.
Benveniste’s analysis of Avestan miżda (recompense) illuminates how the Indo-Iranian value-root intersects with eschatological reward, a semantic field structurally analogous to the memory-and-valuation complex of the Greek mna- family.
, Indo European Language and Society, 1973aside