manu-s or monu-s

    manu-s or monu-s

    English meaning: man

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Mann, Mensch”

    Material: O.Ind. mánu-, mánuṣ- “person, man, husband” (also “Ahnherr the people”), Av. in PN Manus-čiϑra-, Proto-Gmc. *manu̯az in PN Mannus (Tacitus), Stammvater the Deutschen, Goth. manna (gen. mans), O.Ice. maðr, mannr, O.E. O.Fris. O.H.G. mann “man, husband”, Goth. mannisks, O.Ice. mennskr, O.E. O.H.G. mennisc “menschlich”; O.H.G. mannisko etc. “person”; O.C.S. možь, Russ. muž “man, husband” (*mangi̯a-, suffix similarly as in Lith. žmo-g-ùs “person”). Probably Hom. Menelaus diminutive form of “husband” Maybe the root word is related to the name of the moon in PIE; Menelaus “moon god?”; also egypt. Menes? “lion of revenge” (the chariot of the moon was pulled by lions in Egypt). Lion was the beast that fell from the moon.

    References: WP. II 266, Trautmann 169; perhaps to 3. men- “think”. Page(s): 700 In Sanskrit, the name Manu appropriately came to mean "man" or "mankind" (since Manu, or Noah, was the father of all post-flood mankind). The word is related to the Germanic Mannus, the founder of the West Germanic peoples. Mannus was mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus in his book Germania. Mannus is also the name of the Lithuanian Noah. Another Sanskrit form. manusa is closely related to the Swedish manniska, both words meaning "human being." The same name may even be reflected in the Egyptian Menes (founder of the first dynasty of Egypt) and Minos (founder and first king of Crete). Minos was also said in Greek mythology to be the son of Zeus and ruler of the sea. The English word "man" is thus also related to the Sanskrit manu, as well as its equivalents in other Germanic languages. Gothic, the oldest known Germanic language, used the form Manna, and also gaman ("fellow man"). The name Anu appears in Sumerian as the god of the firmament, and the rainbow was called "the great bow of Anu," which seems a clear reference to Noah (NOTE Genesis 9:13). In Egyptian mythology Nu was the god of waters who sent an inundation to destroy mankind. Nu and his consort Nut were deities of the firmament and the rain. Nu was identified with the primeval watery mass of heaven, his name also meaning ‘sky." marko-

    English meaning: horse

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Pferd”

    Note: only Celt. and Gmc.

    Material: Ir. marc, Welsh etc. march “horse”, Gaul. μάρκαν acc. sg., Marcodurum PN; O.H.G. marah, O.E. mearh, O.Ice. marr “horse” (Ger. in Mar-schall, -stall), fem. O.H.G. meriha, O.E. mīere, O.Ice. merr, Ger. Mähre. Maybe Alb. (*mahar) magar, gomar “donkey”.

    References: WP. II 235.