mand

• IPA^(key): /mænd/, /mɑːnd/

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Introduced by B. F. Skinner. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mand (plural mands)

1. (psychology) A verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.

mand (third-person singular simple present mands, present participle manding, simple past and past participle manded)

1. (psychology) To produce a mand (verbal operant).

mand (plural mands)

1. (obsolete) A demand.

• “mand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• d-man, NDMA, NMDA, nam'd, damn, MDNA, mDNA

From Old Norse *mannʀ, (west) maðr, from Proto-Germanic *mannz, *man(n)ô, cognate with Norwegian mann, Swedish man, English man, German Mann. Doublet of man.

• IPA^(key): /manˀ/, [ˈmænˀ]
• Rhymes: -and

mand c (singular definite manden, plural indefinite mænd)

1. man (adult male human)
2. husband (male spouse)

• mand on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Middle Dutch mande, from Old Dutch *manda, from Proto-West Germanic *mandu.

• IPA^(key): /mɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: mand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

mand f (plural manden, diminutive mandje n)

1. basket (receptacle, traditionally made of wicker, now also frequently of plastic)

   Synonym: korf

• Afrikaans: mandjie (from the diminutive)
• → Caribbean Hindustani: mánki
• → Mohegan-Pequot: manodah
• → Saramaccan: mánda

mand m (definite singular manden, indefinite plural mænd, definite plural mændene)

1. obsolete spelling of mann

• mond

From Proto-West Germanic *mandu (“basket”).

• IPA^(key): /mɑnd/

mand f

1. basket

Strong ō-stem:

• meannt

Possibly from Scots maun (“must”), or a corruption of bean (“touch, handle”) from Old Irish benaid (“to strike”).

• (Islay) IPA^(key): /mɛn̪ˠt̪/^[1]

mand (defective, future indicative positive mandaidh, negative cha mhand, question am mand, conditional indicative positive mhandadh, negative cha mhandadh, question am mandadh) (most of South Argyll, particularly Islay)

1. may, can (be able to)

   mandaidh mi tighinn ― I can come

   cha mhand mi tighinn ― I cannot come

   am mandadh mi bruidhinn ris? ― would I be able to speak to him?

• This defective verb has only the future and conditional tenses.

• 's urrainn do
• dearg (Benbecula, South Uist)

• Seumas Grannd (2000), The Gaelic of Islay: A Comparative Study‎^[1], Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, →ISBN
• Scouller, Alastair (2017), The Gaelic Dialect of Colonsay (PhD thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, page 351

mand

1. nasal mutation of band