maan

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See also: Maan, mån, -maan, and mään

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch maan, from Middle Dutch mâne, from Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mɑːn/
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Noun[edit]

maan (plural mane)

  1. moon

Amis[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

maan

  1. (interrogative) what

References[edit]

2021, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (阿美語中部方言辭典) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Chuukese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

maan

  1. animal

References[edit]

  • A sketch of Trukese grammar (1965)
  • Trukese-English Dictionary (1990)

Dutch[edit]

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Dutch mâne, from Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s. The Germanic word was originally masculine (compare German Mond), but it became feminine in Early Middle Dutch (perhaps by analogy with zon).

Noun[edit]

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

  1. moon
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Afrikaans: maan
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: manti
  • Jersey Dutch: mân, môn
  • Negerhollands: maand, man, maen
  • → Aukan: manti

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Dutch māne, from Old Dutch *mana, from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō.

Noun[edit]

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

  1. mane

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

maan

  1. first-person singular present indicative of manen
  2. imperative of manen

Anagrams[edit]

Finnish[edit]

Noun[edit]

maan

  1. genitive singular of maa

Anagrams[edit]

Kanakanabu[edit]

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers
 <  9 10 11  > 
    Cardinal : maan

Numeral[edit]

maan

  1. ten

Nzadi[edit]

Noun[edit]

máán (plural only)

  1. wine (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading[edit]

  • Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
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