mannkyn

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse mannkyn.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mannkyn n (genitive singular mannkyns, no plural)

  1. mankind

Declension[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *manakunją; equivalent to maðr +‎ kyn.

Noun[edit]

mannkyn n

  1. mankind

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Danish: mandkøn
  • Icelandic: mannkyn

References[edit]

  • mannkyn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press