mant

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: mänt-, -mant, and -mânt

Catalan

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Old Catalan mant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *managiþō, cognate with Old French maint, or possibly from a conflation of tantus (many) + magnum (large).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

mant (feminine manta, masculine plural mants, feminine plural mantes)

  1. much; a lot (of)
    • 1283, Ramón Lull, Blanquerna, page 76:
      Mant hom se vana que murria pel vostre Fill, si lloch venia; mas paucs son cells qui·l vagen preycar als infeels, car mort los fay duptar
      Many men boast that they would die for your Son, if it came to that; however few are they who preach to the infidels, as death makes them doubt.
    • 1983, Isabel Clara Simó, Júlia, page 108:
      Trucà manta vegades. A la fi l’obriren, una minyona de cabells vermells que no hi era el dia que hi feren la visita en què es prometeren
      He rang many times. Finally someone opened the door, a maid with red hair who wasn't there on the day he made the visit to promise themselves in marriage.

Adverb

[edit]

mant

  1. in abundance, galore

Synonyms

[edit]

References

[edit]

Old Norse

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

mant

  1. second-person singular present active indicative of muna

Old Occitan

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Proto-Germanic *managiþō. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French maint. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

[edit]

mant

  1. much; a lot (of)

References

[edit]

Tocharian B

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Cognate with Tocharian A mänt (how), from Proto-Tocharian [Term?], according to Adams from pre-Tocharian *mén tō, from Proto-Indo-European *mén (how, when) + *tō (relative pronoun, from the old ablative of *só), the first element of which is also found in mäkte. Indo-European cognates may include Hittite 𒈠𒀀𒀭 (ma-a-an /⁠mān⁠/, like, as, how; if, when(ever)), Luwian 𒈠𒀀𒀭 (ma-a-an /⁠mān⁠/, when, whenever, if), Old Irish (when), and perhaps Ancient Greek μέν (mén, while, so), μά (, by) and/or μήν (mḗn, surely).

Conjunction

[edit]

mant

  1. so, this

References

[edit]
  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “mant”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 471–473
  • Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 552:*món ?