Where does “mans” come from?

mans (Cornish) comes from Old French mans, from Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European mank-.

mans (Cornish): crippled, maimed

Definitions

  1. crippled, maimed

Ancestry of “mans”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmans—
2Latinmancusmaimed, crippled, handicapped, infirm; defective,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmank-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mank- →