Old English · noun
menniscnes
Normalised mennisċnes
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- Modern English
- mancynnincarnationhumanitydoctrinehuman
Meaning
-
humanity (meaning "the state of being human", not "mankind"; the word for "mankind" was mancynn)
-
Incarnation (Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ was fully divine and fully human)
Đā wæs fēower hund wintra ⁊ nigon ⁊ fēowertiġ frām ūres Drihtnes mennisċnysse...
It was about four hundred and forty-nine years after our Lord's Incarnation...
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Declension
| Singular | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | mennisċnes |
| Accusative | mennisċnesse |
| Genitive | mennisċnesse |
| Dative | mennisċnesse |
All forms (2)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *manniskanassī. Equivalent to mennisċ + -nes.
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