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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/managaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Likely from a substrate language of northwestern Europe. Or from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂- (large) with a nasal infix. Proto-Celtic *menekkis, Proto-Slavic *mъnogъ, Proto-Finno-Permic *mone are probably from the same source; according to Watkins, the Germanic, Slavic, and Celtic terms could all stem from a late (Northwestern) Proto-Indo-European *monogʰos.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑ.nɑ.ɣɑz/

Adjective

*managaz (comparative *managizô, superlative *managistaz)

  1. many
  2. much (large amount of)

Inflection


Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • *mangiją

Descendants

Further reading

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 352

References

  1. many”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “many”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  3. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mъnogъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 334:adj. o ‘much, many’
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