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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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mannaẗ مَنَّة 
ID 839 • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MNː (MNN) 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Englmanna, from Aram mannā, from Hbr mān ‘manna’, akin to Ar mann ‘favour, gift, honeydew, manna’, from manna, vb. I, ‘to be kind, show favour’. 
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MNʕ منع 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 13May2023
√MNʕ 
“root” 
▪ MNʕ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MNʕ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ MNʕ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to prevent, refuse, hold back, hinder, prohibit, restrain, refrain, deprive; to protect, guard over; to be difficult, defy, be impregnable, be impenetrable, be insurmountable; to be mighty, be wealthy; to be miserly’ 
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MNW / MNY منو / مني 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√MNW/Y 
“root” 
▪ MNW/Y_1 ‘to put to the test, try, tempt, afflict’ ↗manā~manà
▪ MNW/Y_2 ‘fate, destiny, lot; (fate of) death’ ↗manan, ‘Manāt (anc.Ar goddess)’ ↗Manāẗ
▪ MNW/Y_3 ‘semen, sperm’ ↗minan, ‘wish, desire’ ↗munyaẗ~minyaẗ
▪ MNW/Y_4 ‘’ ↗… .

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): [√MNW/Y] ‘fate, to fate, death, to afflict, to test; to approximate; to hope for, to imagine, to implore; to fabricate, to lie; to shed, to flow, semen, sperm; to recite; to reward; to await; a dry measure’ 
▪ Dolgopolsky2012 holds [v1] and [v2] apart for systematic reasons, but acknowledges possible/probable overlapping (‘fate, destiny, lot’ interpreted as s.th. by which a deity ‘puts s.o. to the test’ or by which one is ‘afflicted’). In principle, however, he posits 3 Sem (< Nostr) roots:
  • #1427 [cf. MNW/Y_1]: protSem *√mny ~ *√mnw ‘to test, reckon, count’ < Nostr *mon̄˅ ‘to think, learn, know’ (with assumed cognates even in Eur langs, e.g., Grk mnḗmē ‘remembrance, memory’, Ge meinen, Engl mean);
  • #1423 [cf. MNW/Y_2]: protSem *manay-, *manat- ‘share’ < Nostr *meǹ˅ ‘to tear, tear into pieces, divide’, perh. contaminated/influenced by, or completely dependent on, #1427 Sem *√mny ‘to count’;
  • #1433 [cf. MNW/Y_3]: protSem *√mny ‘to wish, desire’ < Nostr *mAyn˅ ‘desire’ (perh. contaminated/influenced by #1427 Nostr *mon̄˅ ‘to think, learn, know’) (with assumed cognates even in Eur langs, e.g., nHGe Minne ‘love’, mHGe meinen ‘to love’).
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▪ For [v3], Militarev&Kogan2000 (SED I vb#41) assume that Ar preserved the original meaning of the Sem vb., *mny, which was prob. *‘to discharge sperm, excude vaginal secretion’ (cf. ↗minan) and later underwent a semantic shift, via ‘to have sexual desire’ (cf. derived forms like ĭstamnà, vb. X, ‘to practice onanism, masturbate, have pollutions’) further to ‘desire, wish, want’ and ‘love’ (↗munyaẗ~minyaẗ).
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▪ See ↗manā~manà [v1], ↗manan [v2], ↗minan [v3].
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▪ Any relation betw. [v3] ‘semen, sperm; wish, desire’ and one or more of the other values?
▪ Else: see above, section CONC.
 
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