manks
/mæŋks/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] the others marry with the Manks women, so their children become natives."
- "The cause was, he courted a pretty Manks maid who lived in a bower beneath the blue tree of Glen Aldyn, and therefore was absent from the Fairy court during the Re-hollys vooar yn ouyr, or harvest-moon, being engaged dancing in the merry glen of Rushen."
- "Those who reckon the extirpation of the Manks language to be a necessary step towards the general extension of English which they deem essential"
Etymology
Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn (“Isle of Man”), from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk.
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Inflected Forms
more Manks (comparative)
most Manks (superlative)