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Mane (Îngilîzî)

Noun

1. (Medieval-Latin, declension-3) being
2. (declension-3) essence
3. (declension-3) existence

Verb

being

Hevwate

natura

res

rēs

creatura

animatum

animate

Werger

مَخْلُوق

كَائِن

cosa

ésser

Ding

Geschöpf

Wesen

πλάσμα

πράγμα

being

thing

chose

créature

être

شَيْء

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

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Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Formed as a present participle of sum (“to be”) in Medieval Latin (and therefore unknown in the Classical period) by using the bare present participial ending -ēns of second and third conjugation verbs, as an analogy to the Ancient Greek present participle ὤν (ṓn) which falsely appears to be the same bare suffix but etymologically corresponds to sōns, both from *h₁es- (“to be”). See also essentia for a similar formation.
The original present participle sōns had taken on the meaning "guilty" in the Classical period, but the still productive combining form -sēns present in the verbs absum (absēns (“absent”)) and praesum (praesēns (“present”)) was ignored in creating this form.