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mane

noun
/meɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).

  1. derived from *mony-✻
  2. inherited from *manō✻ — “mane”
  3. inherited from *manu✻
  4. inherited from manu — “mane”
  5. inherited from mane

Definitions

  1. Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.

  2. Long or thick hair of a person's head.

  3. Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Eye dialect spelling of man.

      • Ayy, make this right, mane, stop at the light, mane

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA