The story
- Middle English · inherited frommanhode
- English todaymanhood
From Middle English manhode, also manhede (> obsolete English manhead), equivalent to man + -hood. Cognate with Middle Dutch manheit (“manhood”), Middle Low German manheit (whence German Low German Mannheit (“manhood”)), German Mannheit (“manhood”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.