mand

See also: Mand and mänd

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mænd/, /mɑːnd/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Etymology 1

Introduced by B. F. Skinner.

Noun

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.

Verb

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

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

Noun

mand (plural mands)

  1. (obsolete) A demand.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mand in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

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.

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

Noun

mand c (singular definite manden, plural indefinite mænd)

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

Inflection
Declension of mand
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mand manden mænd mændene
genitive mands mandens mænds mændenes

Derived terms

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɑnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mand
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

mand f (plural manden, diminutive mandje n)

  1. basket (receptacle, traditionally made of wicker, now also fequently of plastic)
    Synonym: korf

Derived terms

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

  1. Obsolete spelling of mann

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɑnd/

Noun

mand f

  1. basket

Declension
Declension of mand (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mand manda, mande
accusative mande manda, mande
genitive mande manda
dative mande mandum

Welsh

Noun

mand

  1. Nasal mutation of band.

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
band fand mand unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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