English
mañana
Mañana comes from Spanish mañana ‘the morning’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- ‘good, great’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₂-‘good, great’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāne‘in the morning’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*māneānareconstructed
- Old Spanishc. 950–1500mannana‘morning’literally ‘tomorrow morning’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentmañana‘the morning’
- Englishearliest quotation 1938same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₂-‘good, great’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāne‘in the morning’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*māneānareconstructed
- Old Spanishc. 950–1500mannana‘morning’literally ‘tomorrow morning’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentmañana‘the morning’
- Englishearliest quotation 1938same form
Earliest quotation: 1938, George Orwell pseudonym; Eric Arthur Bla, London: Secker & Warburg: “The answer was always a harassed smile and a…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- ‘good, great’
most, mo, mature, mistress, maturity, mat, maturation, maduro, matinee, demure, magisterial, matin, 20 more
Today it means
adv Tomorrow.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- / mañana