mane
pronunciation
How to pronounce mane in British English:
UK [meɪn]
How to pronounce mane in American English:
US [meɪn]
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- Noun:
- long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
- growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being
Word Origin
- mane
- mane: [OE] Mane goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *manō, which also produced German mähne and Dutch mane. Related forms such as Swedish manke ‘neck’, Irish muin ‘nape of the neck’, archaic Welsh mwn ‘neck’, Latin monīle ‘necklace’, and Sanskrit manyā- ‘nape of the neck’ suggest that historically ‘neck’ is the primary, ‘neck-hair’ a secondary meaning of this word-family. It has been speculated that it goes back ultimately to Indo-European *men- ‘project’ (source of English eminent, prominent, etc).
- mane (n.)
- Old English manu "mane," from Proto-Germanic *mano (cognates: Old Norse mön, Old Frisian mana, Middle Dutch mane, Dutch manen, Old High German mana, German Mähne "mane"), from PIE *mon- "neck, nape of the neck" (cognates: Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Old English mene "necklace," Latin monile "necklace," Welsh mwng "mane," Old Church Slavonic monisto, Old Irish muin "neck").
Example
- 1. But a sexy mane has its price .
- 2. Here , an underwater view captures the billowing tentacles of a lion 's mane jellyfish .
- 3. A lion 's mane jellyfish swims beneath the waters of the farne islands , england .
- 4. He sported a flowing mane of hair and a thick beard , and called himself the wolfman .
- 5. Nutrition , social factors , and genetics have previously been considered important factors affecting mane quality , but the new finding suggests that up to one-half of the mane 's length and density is determined by temperature .