Etymology

mane

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Today it means: Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion. Full definition →

Middle English mane ← Old English manu ← Proto-West Germanic *manu
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mane · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*mony-
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*manō“mane”
  3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*manu
  4. Old English · inherited frommanu“mane”
  5. Middle English · inherited frommane
  6. English todaymane

From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).

mane · noun2

Dialectal rendering of man, as used in African-American Vernacular English.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*mony- all →

manilla

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