Meny

Meny is a term that appears in different languages with distinct meanings. In Scandinavian languages, meny is a noun meaning a menu—the list of dishes or options presented to diners or users of software and devices. It is a common word in restaurants, cafés, and digital interfaces, and is used in phrases such as dagens meny (“today’s menu”). The word is generally traced to the French "menu," adopted into Norwegian and Swedish usage in modern times.

In Indonesian and Malay linguistics, meny- is a verbal prefix belonging to the MeN- class of affixes. It is used to form transitive verbs and often involves phonological changes when attaching to base words starting with certain consonants, particularly s-; a typical example is menyapu, meaning “to sweep,” derived from sapu (broom). The prefix demonstrates how Indonesian and Malay verbs are built through systematic affixation that modifies the initial consonant of the root.

Thus, meny can refer to a practical dining-related term in Scandinavian contexts or to a grammatical prefix in Austronesian languages. The two meanings are unrelated beyond the shared spelling in Latin script, reflecting distinct linguistic origins and functions.