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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *manniskanassī. Equivalent to mennisċ + -nes.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈmen.niʃ.nes/
Noun
mennisċnes f
- humanity (meaning "the state of being human", not "mankind"; the word for "mankind" was mancynn)
- Incarnation (Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ was fully divine and fully human)
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Đā wæs fēower hund wintra ⁊ nigon ⁊ fēowertiġ frām ūres Drihtnes mennisċnysse...- It was about four hundred and forty-nine years after our Lord's Incarnation...
Declension
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