mant

Inherited from Old Catalan mant. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *managiþō, cognate with Old French maint, or possibly from a conflation of tantus (“many”) + magnum (“large”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈman]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmant]

mant (feminine manta, masculine plural mants, feminine plural mantes)

1. much; a lot (of)
   • 1283, Ramón Lull, Blanquerna, page 76:

     Mant hom se vana que murria pel vostre Fill, si lloch venia; mas paucs son cells qui·l vagen preycar als infeels, car mort los fay duptar

     Many men boast that they would die for your Son, if it came to that; however few are they who preach to the infidels, as death makes them doubt.

   • 1983, Isabel Clara Simó, Júlia, page 108:

     Trucà manta vegades. A la fi l’obriren, una minyona de cabells vermells que no hi era el dia que hi feren la visita en què es prometeren

     He rang many times. Finally someone opened the door, a maid with red hair who wasn't there on the day he made the visit to promise themselves in marriage.

mant

1. in abundance, galore

• balquena, cabassos, grapats, manats

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*manigiþō-”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 16: Germanismes: G–R, page 512
• “mant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

mant

1. second-person singular present active indicative of muna

Proto-Germanic *managiþō. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French maint. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

mant

1. much; a lot (of)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*manigiþō-”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 16: Germanismes: G–R, page 512

Cognate with Tocharian A mänt (“how”), from Proto-Tocharian [Term?], according to Adams from pre-Tocharian *mén tō, from Proto-Indo-European *mén (“how, when”) + *tō (relative pronoun, from the old ablative of *só), the first element of which is also found in mäkte. Indo-European cognates may include Hittite 𒈠𒀀𒀭 (ma-a-an /⁠mān⁠/, “like, as, how; if, when(ever)”), Luwian 𒈠𒀀𒀭 (ma-a-an /⁠mān⁠/, “when, whenever, if”), Old Irish má (“when”), and perhaps Ancient Greek μέν (mén, “while, so”), μά (má, “by”) and/or μήν (mḗn, “surely”).

mant

1. so, this

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “mant”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 471–473
• Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 552: “*món ?”