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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/manniskaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From *mann- + *-iskaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑn.nis.kɑz/

Adjective

*manniskaz

  1. human, manlike

Inflection


Descendants

In several daughter languages, this word only survives as a substantivised form of the weak declension. In Proto-Germanic, this would have originally meant 'he who/that which is human'.

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