different between mann vs woman

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• man, månn

Etymology

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.

Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic ???????????????????? (manna).

Noun

mann m (plural manne, diminutive ménle) (Sette Comuni)

1. man
2. husband

Declension

References

• “mann” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
• “mann” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Cornish

Alternative forms

• màn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mæn]

Adverb

mann

1. at all

Noun

mann m

1. nothing, nil

Numeral

mann

1. zero

Faroese

Noun

mann

1. accusative singular of maður

Gothic

Romanization

mann

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Noun

mann m

1. indefinite accusative singular of maður

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Backformation from the comparative manner, from Old High German minniro (“less; fewer”), from Proto-Germanic *minnizô, and/or reinterpretation (as a positive) of Old High German min (“less”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz, adverbial form of the former. Compare the same in Dutch min. The Luxembourgish vocalism is regular through -i- ? -a- in closed syllables.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: Mann

Adjective

mann (masculine mann, neuter mann, comparative manner, superlative am mannsten)

1. little, few

Usage notes

• The positive and comparative forms are indeclinable and cannot be preceded by articles or determiners. The superlative is declined in the normal way.

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Norn

Etymology

From Old Norse maðr.

Noun

mann m

1. man
2. married man
3. master of the house

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mann, accusative case of maðr (“man”) (compare the accusative of Icelandic maður). Originally the word only had the sense "human" but later changed to primarily designate an adult male, the original meaning being replaced by words such as menneske and person. Believed to ultimately be from Proto-Germanic *mann-, stemming from the Proto-Indo-European *man- (a root). Cognate with Swedish man, Danish mand, Faroese and Icelandic maður, English man and many others.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?n?/
• Homophone: man
• Rhymes: -?n?

Noun

mann m (definite singular mannen, indefinite plural menn, definite plural mennene)

1. a man (adult male human being)

2. (mostly in regular sayings and idioms) A human being, person

   (literally: "Go down with man and mouse")

3. A person with certain praiseworthy qualities, often used about males

4. One's husband (see also ektemann)

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

• “mann” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mann, accusative case of maðr (“man”) (compare the accusative of the Icelandic maður). Originally the word only had the sense "human" but later changed to primarily designate an adult male, the original meaning being replaced by words such as menneske and person. Believed to ultimately be from Proto-Germanic *mann-, stemming from the Proto-Indo-European *man- (a root). Cognate with Swedish man, Danish mand, Faroese and Icelandic maður, English man and many others.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?n?/ (example of pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -?n?

Noun

mann m (definite singular mannen, indefinite plural menn, definite plural mennene)

1. man (adult male human being)
2. (mostly in regular sayings and idioms) human being, person
3. person with certain praiseworthy qualities, often used about males
4. husband (see also ektemann)

Synonyms

Inflection

Derived terms

• manna, manne (verb)

References

• “mann” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• ? (m), man, monn, mon, manna

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-.

Cognate with Old Frisian mon, Old Saxon mann, Old Dutch man, Old High German man, Old Norse maðr, Gothic ???????????????????? (manna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?nn/, [m?n]

Noun

mann m (nominative plural menn)

1. person
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Midlent Sunday"

   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of The Consolation of Philosophy

2. man meaning mankind
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, translation of Genesis 1:27

3. (rare or non-literary) man meaning adult male
4. the rune ?, representing the sound /m/

Usage notes

• When mann occurred as the last part of a personal name, it was inflected as an a-stem: thus the dative singular of "?earumann" (name of a bishop) was "?earumanne", not *?earumenn. In other compounds it was inflected the same way as when it occurred by itself, i.e. as a consonant stem: þ?m w?fmenn ("the woman" [dative singular]), not *þ?m w?fmanne.

Declension

Synonyms

• guma

Hyponyms

• bearn
• ?ild
• wer
• w?f

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: mon, man, manne, monne, mæn
  • Scots: man
  • English: man
    • Tok Pisin: man
    • ? Chinese: man
    • ? Chinook Jargon: man
    • ? Korean: ? (maen)
    • ? Spanish: man
    • ? Thai: ??? (m??n)
    • ? Volapük: man
  • English: -man
    • Sranan Tongo: -man
    • ? French: -man
    • ? Japanese: ?? (-man)
    • ? Welsh: -mon
  • Yola: man

Old Norse

Noun

mann m

1. accusative singular indefinite of maðr

English

Etymology

From Middle English woman, from earlier wimman, wifman. The Middle English forms are from Old English wiman, wimman, from w?fmann m (“woman; female servant”, literally “female person”), a compound of w?f (“woman”, whence English wife) +? mann (“person”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.

Cognate with Scots woman, weman. Compare Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske (“female person; female human”). Similar constructions can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human").

A few alternative spellings (see below) respell the term so as not to contain man.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?w?m?n/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?w?m?n/
• Hyphenation: wom?an
• Rhymes: -?m?n
• Homophone: women (some dialects, common in New Zealand and South Africa)

Noun

woman (plural women)

1. An adult female human.
   • 2012, Kate Welsh, Substitute Daddy (?ISBN):

     "There is nothing wrong with Melissa or the way she was raised. She is a sweet, kind, intelligent woman with a generous heart and more love for her child than you and Mother ever showed for either of your children."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:woman.
2. (collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.
   • 1972, Helen Reddy, "I Am Woman," first line:

     I am Woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore

   • 1997, Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard, page 42:

     For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?

   • 2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109:

     Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.

3. A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
   • 2003, Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Psychology Press (?ISBN), page 37:

     To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

   • 2007, Clifford B. Bowyer, The Siege of Zoldex, Silver Leaf Books, LLC (?ISBN), page 307:

     One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.

   • 2008, Christopher Paolini, Brisingr: Or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular - Inheritance Book Three (?ISBN), page 549:

     Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay— […]

   • 2014, Oisin McGann, Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation, Penguin UK (?ISBN):

     There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.

4. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
   • 1914, D. H. Lawrence, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":

     And then, when he lies with his woman, the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.

5. A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
   • 2004, Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount, page 70:

     Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman. I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.

6. A female attendant or servant.
   • c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare:

     By her woman I sent your message.

Usage notes

The current pronunciation of the first vowel of the singular began to appear in western England in the 13th century under the rounding influence of the w, though the older pronunciation with /i/ (? modern /?/) remained in use into the 15th century. Although the vowel of the plural was sometimes also altered to /u/ (? modern /?/) beginning in the 14th century, the pronunciation with /?/ ultimately won out there, possibly under the influence of pairs like foot-feet. However, many speakers (especially of New Zealand English or South African English) have either retained or reinnovated the pronunciation of the plural with /?/. The modern spelling women for the plural is due to influence of the singular; it is attested from the 15th century.

For a time in the 16th and 17th centuries, the pronunciation of the singular sometimes drifted even further back towards /u?/ or /??~o?/ (? modern /o?~??/) and the plural sometimes drifted even further forward towards /i?/, leading to comparisons of the words to "woe man" or "we men".)

Alternative forms

• (feminist spellings; very rare:) (singular:) womxn, womyn, (plural:) womxn, womyn, wymyn
• (eye dialect, sometimes also used as feminist spellings:) (singular:) womin, wommon (also obsolete), womon (plural:) wimin, wimmin, wimmen, wymmyn
• (obsolete, 17th c.) weoman
• (obsolete) whoman
• (plural, informal or obsolete) wimen
• (plural, nonstandard, proscribed) womans
• (plural, nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) womens

Synonyms

• lady; female; see more at Thesaurus:woman

Hypernyms

• man (broad sense), human

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (gender): man
• (age): girl

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: uman
• Aukan: uman
• Krio: uman
• Sranan Tongo: uma; oema (superseded)
• Torres Strait Creole: oman
• ? Japanese: ???? (?man)
• ? Korean: ?? (umeon)
• ? Volapük: vom

Translations

See woman/translations § Noun.

References

• woman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Woman (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

woman (third-person singular simple present womans, present participle womaning, simple past and past participle womaned)

1. To staff with female labor.
   • 2010, Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale, page 77

     The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”

2. (transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, III. ii. 50:

     I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.

3. (transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, III. iv. 191:

     And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd.

4. (transitive) To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

See also

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?voman]

Noun

woman m

1. obsolete form of oman (“elecampane”), obsolete spelling of voman (“elecampane”)

Declension

Middle English

Noun

woman (plural women)

1. Alternative form of womman

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *oman?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?u?oman]

Noun

woman m

1. inula, elecampane (Inula spp., especially Inula helenium)

Declension