English

manel

Blend of man + panel.

A blend of man + panel

Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’

Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’

Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’

Middle English man

English man

Latin pannus ‘cloth’

Vulgar Latin *pannellus

Anglo-Norman panel

Middle English panel ‘piece of cloth’

English panel

Today it means

noun A panel of speakers that fails to include any women.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.