Etymology

manks

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Today it means: Something from the English city of Manchester; short for Mancunian, usually "Mancs" Full definition →

Old Norse *manskr ← Old Irish Mana
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  1. Old Irish · derived fromMana
  2. Old Norse · derived from*manskr
  3. English todayManks

Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn (“Isle of Man”), from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk.

Words from the same roots

Old Norse*manskr all →

manx

Old IrishMana all →

manmanx

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.