Etymology

mankeeping

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Today it means: The invisible social and emotional labor that women do for men in heterosexual relationships. Full definition →

English keeping ← 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. Englishkeeping
  8. English todaymankeeping

From man + keeping.

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