FromDutchmaan, fromMiddle Dutchmâne, fromOld Dutch*māno, fromProto-West Germanic*mānō, fromProto-Germanic*mēnô, fromProto-Indo-European*mḗh₁n̥s.
maan (pluralmane)
- moon
maan
- (interrogative)what
- IPA(key): /ˈmaʔan/ [ˈma.ʔan̪]
- Hyphenation:ma‧an
máan (Basahan spellingᜋᜀᜈ᜔)
- care,caution
- Synonym:ingat
maan
- animal
- A sketch of Trukese grammar (1965)
- Trukese-English Dictionary (1990)
FromMiddle Dutchmâne, fromOld Dutch*māno, fromProto-West Germanic*mānō, fromProto-Germanic*mēnô, fromProto-Indo-European*mḗh₁n̥s.
The Germanic word was originally masculine (compareGermanMond), but it became feminine in Early Middle Dutch (perhaps by analogy withzon).
maan f (pluralmanen,diminutivemaantje n)
- moon
FromMiddle Dutchmāne, fromOld Dutch*mana, fromProto-West Germanic*manu, fromProto-Germanic*manō.
maan f (pluralmanen,diminutivemaantje n)
- mane
maan
- inflection ofmanen:
- first-personsingularpresentindicative
- (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
- imperative
Possibly afolk etymology ofmaar, reinterpreted asmaan (the genitive singular ofmaa; see below).
maan
- (regional, Tampere, Turku)An intensifier, chiefly used before a-sti adverb or adjective;so,very
Very often prefixed withniin (niin maan).
maan
- genitivesingular ofmaa
maan
- ten
FromOld Frisianman, fromProto-West Germanic*mann, fromProto-Germanic*mann-.
maan m (pluralmaaner)(Föhr-Amrum)
- man(adult male human)
- husband
máán (plural only)
- wine(clarification of this definition is needed)
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