Etymology

maneen

M3A1N1E1E1N1

Today it means: A little man. Full definition →

English man ← Middle English man ← Old English mann
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  2. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  3. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  4. Old Englishmann
  5. Middle Englishman
  6. Englishman
  7. English todaymaneen

From man + -een.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.