Mang

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. A dialect word meaning among or amid, used in some regional English speech ; to mix something together or blend things into one another in dialect usage
2. Regional English dialect for amid or in the middle of a group ; a dialect verb for mixing or combining materials so they become blended together
3. In some northern and Scots dialects, a preposition meaning among ; in the same dialects, a verb describing the act of mixing or mingling things

Etymology: In American Spanish, "mang" is a dialectal rendering of "man," so the spelling is shared by several unrelated origins. In English, it first appears as a Middle English variant of "among," from Old English "on gemang," meaning "in the crowd" or "in the mix." A separate English verb, "mangen" or "mængen," comes from Old English "mængan," meaning "to mix or mingle," and is a variant of "mengan." A third origin comes from the Romani world. Angloromani "mong," meaning "to beg," was borrowed from the Romani verb "mangel," meaning "to want" or "to beg." That Romani verb is linked to Sanskrit "mārg-," meaning "to seek" or "to ask for."