See also: Maan, mån, -maan, and mään

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /mɑːn/
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NounEdit

maan (plural mane)

  1. moon

AmisEdit

PronounEdit

maan

  1. (interrogative) what

ReferencesEdit

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.

ChuukeseEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

maan

  1. animal

ReferencesEdit

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

DutchEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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).

NounEdit

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

  1. moon
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Afrikaans: maan
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: manti
  • Jersey Dutch: mân, môn
  • Negerhollands: maand, man, maen
  • Aukan: manti

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

  1. mane
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

maan

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

AnagramsEdit

FinnishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

maan

  1. genitive singular of maa

Etymology 2Edit

Possibly a folk etymology of maar, reinterpreted as maan (the genitive singular of maa; see etymology 1).

AdverbEdit

maan

  1. (regional, Tampere, Turku) An intensifier, chiefly used before a -sti adverb or adjective; so, very
Usage notesEdit

Very often prefixed with niin (niin maan).

AnagramsEdit

KanakanabuEdit

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers
 <  9 10 11  > 
    Cardinal : maan

NumeralEdit

maan

  1. ten

NzadiEdit

NounEdit

máán (plural only)

  1. wine (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further readingEdit

  • 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