| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | man-1 |
| DEFINITION: | Also mon-. Man. 1. Extended forms *manu-, *manw-. a. man; leman, Norman1, from Old English man(n) (plural menn), man; b. fugleman, landsman2, from Old High German man, man; c. manikin, mannequin, from Middle Dutch man, man; d. yeoman, from Old Frisian man, man; e. Norman1, ombudsman, from Old Norse madhr, mannr, man; f. Alemanni, possibly from Germanic *Ala-manniz, tribal name (< “all men”: *ala-, all; see al-3). a–f all from Germanic *manna- (plural *manniz); g. Manu, from Sanskrit manu , man, from Indo-Iranian *manu-. 2. mensch, from Old High German mennisco, human, from Germanic adjective *manniska-, human, from *manna- (see 1). 3. muzhik, from Russian muzh, man, male, from Slavic suffixed form *mon-gyo-. (Pokorny manu-s 700.) |
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