Etymology
1. O.E.
gemynd "memory, thinking, intention," P.Gmc.
*ga-menthijan (cf. Goth.
muns "thought,"
munan "to think;" O.N.
minni "mind;" Ger.
minne, originally "memory, loving memory"), from PIE base
*men- "think, remember, have one's mind aroused" (cf. Skt.
matih "thought,"
munih "sage, seer;" Gk.
memona "I yearn,"
mania "madness,"
mantis "one who divines, prophet, seer;" L.
mens "mind, understanding, reason,"
memini "I remember,"
mentio "remembrance;" Lith.
mintis "thought, idea," O.C.S.
mineti "to believe, think," Rus.
pamjat "memory"). "Memory" is one of the oldest senses, now almost obsolete except in old expressions such as
bear in mind, call to mind. Phrase
time out of mind is attested from 1414. To
pay no mind "disregard" is recorded from 1916, Amer.Eng. dialect. To
have half a mind to "to have one's mind half made up to (do something)" is recorded from 1726.
Mind-reading is from 1882.
Mind-boggling is from 1964.
2. From Middle English minde, munde, imynde, imunde, ȝemynde, ȝemunde, from Old English mynd, ġemynd (“mind, memory”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundi, *gamundi, from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”) (compare also mantis, via Greek), from the root *men- (“to think”).
3. Cognate with Old High German gimunt ("mind, memory, remembrance"; Middle High German munst (“love, benevolence, joy”)), Old Norse mynd (“image, model”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (gamunds, “remembrance, memory, mind”). Related also to Danish minde (“memory”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish minne (“memory”), Faroese and Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to mantra. Compare also Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint. See: Danish '
minde', Old English '
myntan'.