Comparative evidence

2.men

• Hitt. mimma- 'decline', 'refuse', turn down', 'reject' (HED 6: 158ff.). Kloekhorst (EDHIL: 581f.), however, prefers the comparison of mimma- with the PIE prohibitive particle *meh1.

References

HED = Puhvel, J. 1984 - . Hittite Etymological Dictionary. Mouton.
EDHIL = Kloekhorst, A. 2008. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon. Brill.