maan

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.

• IPA^(key): /mɑːn/

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maan (plural mane)

1. moon

maan

1. (interrogative) what

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.

• man

maan

1. animal

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

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• Hyphenation: maan
• Rhymes: -aːn

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).

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

1. moon

• Afrikaans: maan
• Berbice Creole Dutch: manti
• Jersey Dutch: mân, môn
• Negerhollands: maand, man, maen
• → Aukan: manti

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

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

1. mane

• manenduif

maan

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

• naam

maan

1. genitive singular of maa

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

maan

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

Very often prefixed with niin (niin maan).

• mana

maan

1. ten

máán (plural only)

1. wine (clarification of this definition is needed)

• 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