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Old Norse
Etymology
From maðr + -gi.
Pronoun
manngi (genitive mannskis)
- no man
...á þeim meiði er manngi veit...- ...from that gallows-tree that no one knows...
- (Hávamál 138)
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “manngi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive