man-

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "man"

Cebuano

Prefix

man-

  1. alternative spelling of mang-

Kankanaey

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *maʀ-. Compare Tagalog mag-.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Kankanaey)
  • Syllabification: man-

Prefix

man-

  1. actor trigger verb prefix
    ‎man- + ‎inom (“drink”) → ‎man-inom (“to drink”)
  2. used to form adjectives indicating an attribute
    ‎man- + ‎kilat (“white”) → ‎mankilat ... (“white ...”)

References

  • Janet L. Allen (2014) Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis‎ (overall work in English), →ISBN

Kapampangan

Prefix

man-

  1. verbal affix used to indicate actor focused progressive tense

Malagasy

Prefix

man-

  1. Prefix used to form active transitive verbs, and sometimes used to form adjectives.

Alternative forms

  • mam- before bilabial consonants.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Prefix

man- (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)

  1. Alternative form of mang-, if the root starts with alveolar consonants, such as ⟨d⟩, ⟨l⟩, ⟨n⟩, ⟨r⟩, ⟨s⟩, or ⟨t⟩, which gets nasally assimilated to the prefix ending when starts with voiceless alveolar consonants, ⟨s⟩ and ⟨t⟩ or sometimes ⟨d⟩.
    ‎man- + ‎digma (“war”) → ‎mandirigma (“warrior”)
    ‎man- + ‎dalangin (“prayer”) → ‎manalangin (“to pray”)
    ‎man- + ‎loko (“trickery”) → ‎manloko (“to trick”)
    ‎man- + ‎nood (“view”) → ‎manonood (“viewer”)
    ‎man- + ‎silip (“peep”) → ‎maninilip (“peeping tom”)
    ‎man- + ‎Tagalog (“Tagalog language”) → ‎managalog (“to speak Tagalog”)

Derived terms

Tagalog terms prefixed with man-

Further reading

  • “man-”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

Prefix

man-

  1. Allomorph of mön- (first-person agent/second-person patient prefix) used for stems that begin with a vowel a.

Inflection

Ye'kwana personal markers
pronoun noun possessor/
series II verb argument 		postposition object series I verb argument
transitive patient intransitive patient-like intransitive agent-like transitive agent
first person ewü y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1 w-, wi-
first person dual inclusive küwü k-, kü-, ku-, ki- k-, kii-, ki-1
second person amödö ö-, öy-/ödh-, o-, oy-/odh-, a-, ay-/adh- m-, mi-
first person dual exclusive nña y-/dh-, ch-, ∅-, i-1 chö- ∅- n-, ni-
third person tüwü n-, ni-
distant past third person — kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
coreferential/reflexive — t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te- —
reciprocal — — öö-
  1. With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.
series I verb argument:
transitive agent and transitive patient
first person > second person mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
first person dual exclusive > second person
second person > first person k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
second person > first person dual exclusive
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person see person X in the chart above
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