mankynde

• man-kende, mankende, mankinde, man kynde
• mankynd, men-kynde, monkende (Late Middle English)
• man-kend, man-kinde, mankindde (Norfolk); mankind, man-kind, mans kind (Northern)
• mankunde (Southern); monkinde, monkunde, monkuynde, monkynd, monkynde (West Midland)

From man (“man, human”) +‎ kynde (“nature, kind”), possibly as an alteration of mankyn.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmanˈkiːnd(ə)/, /ˈmanˌkiːnd(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˌmanˈkeːnd(ə)/, /ˈmanˌkeːnd(ə)/ (East Anglia, East Saxon, Kent)
• IPA^(key): /ˌmɔnˈkyːnd(ə)/, /ˈmɔnˌkyːnd(ə)/ (West Midland)

mankynde (uncountable)

1. Humankind, humanity; the human race.

   Synonym: mankyn

   • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus xıx᷒ et explıcıt Dobet // et ımplıcıt Dobeſt”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 121, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:

     ¶ And Grace gaf hym þe cros. wıþ þe croune of þoꝛnes / That crıſt vp on Caluarıe. foꝛ mankynde on pyned

     And Grace gave him the Cross with the Crown of Thorns, / that Christ suffered on for humanity up on Calvary.

2. Human nature or form.

   Synonym: mankyn

3. (rare) Men; the male gender or sex.

• mankyn is the more usual term for "mankind" in Early Middle English.

• English: mankind
• Middle Scots: mankynd, mankind, mankynde
  • Scots: mankind

• “man-kīnd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.