Where does “mancu” come from?

mancu (Asturian) comes from Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European mank-.

mancu (Asturian): one-handed, one-armed, maimed

Definitions

  1. one-handed, one-armed, maimed

Ancestry of “mancu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmancusmaimed, crippled, handicapped, infirm; defective,...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanmank-
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