English Explanatory Dictionary

maness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Female equivalent of man: woman.
name
  1. A surname from Dutch.
  2. An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, United States.

Word forms

maness Manesses

Etymology

From man + -ess, especially after Biblical Hebrew אִשָּׁה (ishá, “woman”), which is traditionally presented as a feminine form of אִישׁ ('ish, “man”) but is a false cognate. Compare French hommesse, formed upon the same analogy.

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