meng-

    meng-

    English meaning: pretty, beautiful; useful thing (?)

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schöner machen, schwindelhaft verschönern”

    Note: only nominal

    Material: O.Ind. mañjú-, mañjulá- “already, mellifluous”, maṅgalá- n. “good Omen, luck”; Osset. mäng “deceit”; Gk. μάγγανον n. “ magical cure, magic potion; philtre, Kriegsmaschine” etc. (out of it borrowed Lat. manganum “Maschine”, Alb. mangë “Hanfbreche” etc., M.H.G. mange “Wurfmaschine”, Ger. Mange(l) “Wäscherolle”), gr*μάγγων (out of it Lat. mangō “betrugerischer Händler”), μαγγανεύω “betrũge” etc.; M.Ir. meng “ deception, artifice”, mengach “verräterisch”; from Ger. mange derives O.Pruss. manga “Hure”, Lith. mánga “ungezogene person”; Toch. A maṅk “blame, fault, error”.

    References: WP. II 233, WH. II 28 f.