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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | man-2 |
| DEFINITION: | Hand.
Derivatives include manacle, maneuver, and manure.
1a. manacle, manage, manège, manner, manual, manubrium, manus; amanuensis, maintain, maneuver, manicotti, manicure, manifest, mansuetude, manufacture, manumit, manure, manuscript, mastiff, mortmain, quadrumanous, from Latin manus, hand; b. maniple, manipulation, from Latin manipulus, handful (-pulus, perhaps -ful; see pel -1). 2. Suffixed form *man-ko-, maimed in the hand. manqué, from Latin mancus, maimed, defective. 3. emancipate, from Latin compound manceps, “he who takes by the hand,” purchaser (-ceps, agential suffix, “taker”; see kap-). 4. mandamus, mandate, Maundy Thursday; command, commando, commend, countermand, demand, recommend, remand, from Latin compound mand re, “to put into someone's hand,” entrust, order (-dere, to put; see dh -). (Pokorny m-r 740.) |
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