manure

The story

1. Latin · derived frommanū“by hand”
2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*manuoperare“work by hand”
3. Old French · derived frommanovrer
4. Anglo-Norman · derived frommeinourer
5. Middle English · inherited frommaynouren
6. English todaymanure

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”). Displaced native (in the plural) Old English mes.

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