# mant
## Catalan
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈman]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmant]

### Adjective

mant (feminine manta, masculine plural mants, feminine plural mantes)
* 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 duptarMany 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 prometerenHe 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.

### Adverb

mant
* in abundance, galore

#### Synonyms

* balquena, cabassos, grapats, manats

### References

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

## Old Norse
### Verb

mant
* second-person singular present active indicative of muna

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

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.

### Adjective

mant
* much; a lot (of)

### References

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

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* maunt

### Etymology

From Middle Scots mant (“to stammer”), from Scottish Gaelic mannda or Irish manntach (“stammering, toothless”) (modern mantach), from Irish mant (“tooth gap”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”), similar to Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”).

### Verb

mant (third-person singular simple present mants, present participle mantin, simple past mantt, past participle mantt)
* to stammer; to stutter

### Noun

mant (plural mants)
* a stammer, stutter

### References

* “mant, v., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

## Tocharian B
### Etymology

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”).

### Conjunction

mant
* so, this

### References

* 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 ?”