Word Origin Summary

Mennisk is attested in Old Saxon. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• menniskja

  Faroese · derived from

• Mensch

  Plautdietsch · inherited from

• a-menneske

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• A-menneske

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• A4-menneske

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• menneske

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root