The story
- Proto-Slavic · derived from*mamiti“to deceive, lure”
- English todayManz
* As an Alemannic German surname, pet form of the personal name Mangold. * As a German surname (Bavaria, Austria), pet form of the personal name Manhart, Manhardt. * As a Lower Sorbian surname, Germanized from Manc, a short form of Manislav, Manomir, from Proto-Slavic *mamiti (“to deceive, lure”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.