Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/manō

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“neck, nape; ornament”),[1] which is sometimes further derived from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project, peak, tower over, protrude”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Compare with Latin monile (“necklace”) and Old Irish muin (“neck”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑ.nɔː/

Noun

*manō f[1]

  1. mane

Inflection

Declension of *manō (ō-stem)
singular plural
nominative *manō *manôz
vocative *manō *manôz
accusative *manǭ *manōz
genitive *manōz *manǫ̂
dative *manōi *manōmaz
instrumental *manō *manōmiz

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *manu
    • Old English: manu
    • Old Frisian: *mane; mana, mona
    • Old Saxon: *mana
    • Old Dutch: *mana
      • Middle Dutch: māne
        • Dutch: maan
          • ⇒ Afrikaans: maanhaar
        • Limburgish: maan
    • Old High German: mana
  • Old Norse: mǫn
    • Icelandic: mön
    • Faroese: mon
    • Norwegian Bokmål: man
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: man
    • Old Swedish: man
    • Danish: man

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*manō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 354
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.