Searchable Lemmata: manica (L), manic (Ir), maneg (W), maunche (AF), maunche (ME), manche (OScots), maunch (MdE).
Alternate Forms: faneg, fenig, mance, manche, mange, manches, maunz, menig, menyc, uanec, vanec.
1a(n.)
Accessory;
in general, a covering for the hand; sometimes equated with vincula. In Welsh (maneg) often in the sense 'glove, gauntlet' (the word is still current in Modern Welsh). Cf. the diminutive forms manacle, manicle.(ante 700 still in current use)
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Hand.
1b(n.)
Accessory;
espeically, a sleeve; cuff; also, in heraldry, a sleeve used as a charge.(ante 800 - 1450 ?)
7. ... Et qe nul garceon, yoman ne servant des marchantz, marchandie artificer ou gentz de mestere ne use autrement en apparaile qe n'est ordeine des garceons et yomen des seignurs paramont.
Item [29], qe chivalers qe ont terre ou rente deinz la value de deux centz mars par an preignent et usent drape de sis marcs le drape entier pur lour vesture, et nounpas de plus haute pris. Et q'ils ne usent drape d'or, ne cloche, mantel ne goune fururez de menevoir purez, manches d'ermyns, ne nul apparaill broidez de perre n'autrement. Et qe lour femmes, files et enfantz soient de mesme la condicion, et qe eles ne usent revers d'ermyns, ne de letuses esclaires, ne nul manere d'apparaill de perre sinoun pur lour testes. Mes qe touz chivalers et dames qe ont terre ou rente outre la value de quatre centz mars par an tanqe a la somme de mille livres par an usent a lour volente, forspris ermyns, letuses et apparaille de perre sinoun pur lour testes.
Item, qe les clercs ... q'ont tiel estat qe demande pellure, facent et usent solonc la constitucion d'ycelles. ... Et qe touz ceux, sibien chivalers come clercs, qi par ceste ordinance puissent user pellure en yverne, par mesme la manere usent en este linure.
Legal.
[LexP PROME (Ed. III: Parl. of Oct. 1363, items 28-29) 1363]
8. [88/13] ... Jacobo Fauconere ... pro tieldes per ipsum emptis ... ad cariandum les haukes ... [90/14] ... Et per manus eiusdem a brawederere pro j manche, pro frenges et laces pro vsu domini ... viij marc. ... [90/28] ... Per manus eiusdem pro serico albo et blodeo, vz. xvj node
Accounts.
[MED Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52 (88-90) 1391]
9. Unum vestimentum de panno ... cum orfrays ante & retro signatis cum maunches & cum coloribus armorum meorum ... Unum lavacrum argenteum signatum cum capite tauri ... sex salsaria signata cum maunches
Wills.
[MED Will York in Sur.Soc.4 (218) 1397]
Sex: Male, Female, Infant Use: n/a Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Arm, Hand.
Definite, Classical Latin manica; the direct reflex in Old French / Norman was manche, maunche, borrowed into Middle English and Scots. Maneg is similarly a direct continuation of manica, borrowed from Latin into Brittonic. Irish manic in Cormac's glossary appears to be a learned borrowing.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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