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many

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/ˈmɛni/UK/ˈmɛni/US/ˈmɪni/

Etymology

From Middle English many, mani, moni, from Old English maniġ, moniġ, maneġ (“many”), from Proto-West Germanic *manag, from Proto-Germanic *managaz (“many; much”), from Proto-Indo-European *menegʰ-, *mengʰ- (“many, sufficient”) or Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂- (“big, great”). Cognates Cognate with Scots mony (“many”), Yola many (“many”), North Frisian manag, manig, mäning (“many”), Alemannic German meng (“many”), Central Franconian mannich, männich (“many”), Dutch menig (“many”), German manch (“many, some”), Low German männich, männig (“many”), Luxembourgish muench, munch, munnech (“many”), Danish mangen (“many”), Faroese mangur (“many”), Icelandic margur (“many”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk mang, mange (“many”), Swedish mången (“many”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌲𐍃 (manags, “many; much”), French maint (“many”); also Cornish menowgh (“frequent, often”), Irish minic (“frequently, often”), Manx mennick (“frequent, often”), Scottish Gaelic minig (“frequent”), Welsh mynych (“frequent, often”), Belarusian мно́га (mnóha, “many; much”), Bulgarian and Russian мно́го (mnógo, “many; much”), Czech mnohý (“many, numerous”), Macedonian мно́гу (mnógu, “very; many; much”), Polish mnogi (“numerous; plural”), Serbo-Croatian мно̏гӣ, mnȍgī (“many; much, long; large, numerous”), Ukrainian мно́гий (mnóhyj, “many, multiple”). The noun is from Middle English manye, *menye, from Old English manigeo, menigu (“company, multitude, host”), from Proto-West Germanic *managu, *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managō, *managį̄ (“multitude”), from the same root as the determiner. Cognate with Middle Low German menige, menie, menje (“multitude”), Russian много (mnogo), Serbo-Croatian mnogo.

  1. inherited from *managō✻
  2. inherited from *managu✻
  3. inherited from manigeo
  4. inherited from manye
  5. inherited from *méǵh₂s✻ — “big, great”
  6. inherited from *menegʰ-✻
  7. inherited from *managaz✻ — “many; much”
  8. inherited from *manag✻
  9. inherited from maniġ
  10. inherited from many

Definitions

  1. before a countable noun

    before a countable noun: A large, indefinite number of.

    • Not many such people enjoyed playing chess.
    • There are very many different ways to cook a meal.
    • We spent many hours and days training, but running clubs boast many hundreds of faster members.

  2. A large, indefinite number of people or things.

    • Many are called, but few are chosen.
    • Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

  3. A multitude

    A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.

    • Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A considerable number.

      • I know that my mother cried a many of times from decisions I made.

    2. Existing in large number

      Existing in large number; numerous.

    3. A surname.

    4. A town, the parish seat of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for many. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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