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Word: 'man' • Extended Annotations



man

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of man

"a featherless plantigrade biped mammal of the genus Homo" (Century Dictionary)

Old English man, mann "human being, person (male or female); brave man, hero;" also "servant, vassal, adult male considered as under the control of another person"
from Proto-Germanic root mann-
from PIE root man- "man"
Not to be confused with the PIE root man- "hand"

The sense of adult male of the human race (separate from woman, or a boy) is in Old English by circa 1000.
Old English used wer and wif to distinguish the sexes.

man noun

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
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artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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