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man.

place; location

3 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/man/
  1. place; location

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh mann, from Proto-Celtic *mendu (“mark, location”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-dʰh₁u-. Cognate with Old Irish mind (“crown”), and also related to Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”); outside of Celtic, cognate with Latin mendum (“fault, blemish”), Hittite [script needed] (mant-, “something harming”).

noun/man/
  1. manna

    masculine · uncommon
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Hebrew מן (mān, “manna”).

noun/man/
  1. speck; blemish

    masculine
  2. stain

    masculine
  3. distinguishing mark

    masculine
  4. birthmark; mole

    masculine
  5. pimple; spot

    masculine
  6. mascle

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh mann, possibly from Latin menda (“defect, blemish, mistake”), from Proto-Indo-European *mend- (“physical defect, fault”); if so, then from the same origin as Etymology 1. See Old Irish mennar (“blemish, stain”). Compare the two meanings of English spot, “place” and “blemish”.

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