man-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "man"

Cebuano

Prefix

man-

1. alternative spelling of mang-

Kapampangan

Prefix

man-

1. verbal affix used to indicate actor focused progressive tense

Malagasy

Prefix

man-

1. Prefix used to form active transitive verbs, and sometimes used to form adjectives.

Alternative forms

• mam- before bilabial consonants.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man/, [mɐn]

Prefix

man- (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔)

1. Alternative form of mang-, if the root starts with alveolar consonants, such as ⟨d⟩, ⟨l⟩, ⟨n⟩, ⟨r⟩, ⟨s⟩, or ⟨t⟩, which gets nasally assimilated to the prefix ending when starts with voiceless alveolar consonants, ⟨s⟩ and ⟨t⟩ or sometimes ⟨d⟩.

   ‎man- + ‎digma (“war”) → ‎mandirigma (“warrior”)

   ‎man- + ‎dalangin (“prayer”) → ‎manalangin (“to pray”)

   ‎man- + ‎loko (“trickery”) → ‎manloko (“to trick”)

   ‎man- + ‎nood (“view”) → ‎manonood (“viewer”)

   ‎man- + ‎silip (“peep”) → ‎maninilip (“peeping tom”)

   ‎man- + ‎Tagalog (“Tagalog language”) → ‎managalog (“to speak Tagalog”)

Derived terms

Tagalog terms prefixed with man-

Further reading

• “man-”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [man-]

Prefix

man-

1. Allomorph of mön- (first-person agent/second-person patient prefix) used for stems that begin with a vowel a.

Inflection

Ye'kwana personal markers

	pronoun	noun possessor/ series II verb argument		postposition object		series I verb argument
						transitive patient	intransitive patient-like		intransitive agent-like	transitive agent
first person	ewü	y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1						w-, wi-
first person dual inclusive	küwü	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-								k-, kii-, ki-1
second person	amödö	ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad-							m-, mi-
first person dual exclusive	nña	y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1			chö-	∅-	n-, ni-
third person	tüwü					n-, ni-
distant past third person		—				kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
coreferential/reflexive	—	t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te-				—
reciprocal	—	—	öö-
With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.

	series I verb argument: transitive agent and transitive patient
first person > second person	mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
first person dual exclusive > second person
second person > first person	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
second person > first person dual exclusive
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person	see person X in the chart above