From Middle English manken, from Old English mancian, bemancian (“to maim, mutilate”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Middle Low German mank (“lame, defective”), Dutch mank (“lame, defective”), and Middle High German manc (“lack, defect”). Perhaps from Latin mancus (“maimed, crippled, frail, incomplete”), from Proto-Indo-European *mank-, *menk- (“maimed, mutilation, torment”).
mank (third-person singular simple present manks, present participle manking, simple past and past participle manked)
Via Polari, from Italian mancare (“to be lacking”), from Latin mancus (“maimed”). See above.
mank (not comparable)
mank (uncountable)
From Middle Dutch manc (“a limping or lame person”), from Latin mancus (“maimed or defective”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *man-.
mank (comparative manker, superlative mankst)
| Inflection of mank | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | mank | |||
| inflected | manke | |||
| comparative | manker | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | mank | manker | het mankst het mankste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | manke | mankere | mankste |
| n. sing. | mank | manker | mankste | |
| plural | manke | mankere | mankste | |
| definite | manke | mankere | mankste | |
| partitive | manks | mankers | — | |
mank
Compare German mang. Related to English among.
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