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mǫn

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *manō.

Noun

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mǫn f (genitive manar, plural manar)

  1. mane

Declension

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Declension of mǫn (strong ō-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mǫn mǫnin manar manarnar
accusative mǫn mǫnina manar manarnar
dative mǫn mǫninni mǫnum mǫnunum
genitive manar manarinnar mana mananna

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: mön
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: man
  • Norwegian Bokmål: man
  • Old Swedish: man
  • Danish: man

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “mön”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 307; also available at the Internet Archive