Contionary:man

Niemish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /man/

Etymology

From Gothic manna. Doublet of mànn ("man").

Pronoun

² màn n.m. hard stem

1. one, someone, they, an unspecified individual or group of people: indefinite personal pronoun

   Man kidt e... ("It is said that…")

Usage notes

• Man is only used in the nominative case; for the oblique cases, forms of the pronoun en are used. For example: Man ne mach all tids toje, hat en szwegen makt. ("One cannot always do what makes one happy").

Pronunciation

• IPA: /maːn/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mainą.

Noun

² mán n.n. syncopating hard stem

1. false witness, perjury

Declension

declension of mán (mh declension, uncountable)
	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	mán	mánat
genitive	mä́ns	mä́nes
dative	mán	mánum

Knrawi

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Etymology

Inherited.

Pronunciation

⫽ma˥n̩⫽

• (Standard) IPA^(key): [ma˥n]
  
• (Royal) IPA^(key): [ŋʷa˥n̩]
  
• (Urban Anajrn) IPA^(key): [mä˥n]
  
• (Ufhewat) IPA^(key): [ma˥n]
  
• (Zjiiama) IPA^(key): [ma˥n]

Noun

man

1. finger

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man inflection

	sg				pl/indef
	sgv		ptv		sgv		ptv
		gen		gen		gen		gen
nom/dat	mańg	man̂g	mańri	man̂ri	maǹg	man̂g*	maǹri	man̂ri*
acc	man	mân	ziman	zîman	màn	mân*	zìman	zîman*
loc	sg mańg	sĝ man̂g	sr mańri	sr̂ man̂ri	sg̀ maǹg	sĝ man̂g*	sr̀ maǹri	sr̂ man̂ri*
*low falling tone in some regions

Synonyms

irkh

Derived terms

• mańirr
• mańrkka