meinetwegen

Shortened from von meinetwegen, which can be traced through two developmental routes. One route is from von meinentwegen / von meinent wegen, from von meinen wegen, from Middle High German von mînen wëgen, in which wegen was the dative plural of modern-day Weg and mînen was the possessive pronoun in the dative plural. Another route can be traced from von meintwegen / von meint wegen, from Middle High German von mînt wëgen, from von mîn wëgen, in which mîn was the genitive pronoun. See more at we