English : from Middle English money(e) ‘money’ (Old
French moneie, Latin moneta), hence a nickname for a
rich man or a metonymic occupational name for a moneyer. Compare
Minter.
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Maonaigh (see Meaney).
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