köken: From Old French devise (“division, separation; heraldic band, emblem”), from deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.
köken: Cognate with Kazakh теңге (teñge, “piece of money; Kazakhstan's national currency”), Uzbek tanga (“currency in the historical Central Asian states; fish scale”), Uyghur تەڭگە (tengge, “silver coin; ruble; fish scale”), Turkmen teňňe (“monetary unit”). Russian деньга (denʹga, “denga, an old coin”). For Bashkir this is clearly a cultural borrowing from Central Asia: tanka was the name of the…
From Old Galician-Portuguese mõeda, moeda, from Latin monēta (“money, coinage, mint”), from Moneta (“a surname of Juno, in whose temple at Rome money was coined”, literally “adviser”), from monere (“to warn, advise”). Cognate with Galician moeda, Spanish, Catalan, and Occitan moneda, French monnaie, Italian moneta and English money.