[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.9304 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9304 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9304 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9304](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9304) The quotations will show how the Portuguese converted man into mão, of which the English made maune, and so (probably by the influence of the old English word \*maund\*)\* our present form, which occurs as early as 1611. Some of the older travellers, like Linschoten, misled by the Portuguese \*mão\*, identified it with the word for ‘hand’ in that language, and so rendered it. - [Previous: c10.9303](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9303) - [Next: c10.9305](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9305) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9304](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9304) · Pramāṇa