MAN  , the word

common to Teutonic languages for a single person of the human race, of either sex, the Lat. homo, and Gr. av6pwiros; also for the human race collectively, and for a full-grown adult male .human being . Teutonic languages, other than English, have usually adopted a derivative in the first sense, e.g . German Mensch . Philologists are not in agreement as to whether the Sanskrit manu is the direct source, or whether both are to be traced to a common root . Doubt also is thrown on the theory that the word is to be referred to the Indo-Germanic root, men, meaning " to think," seen in " mind," man being essentially the thinking or intelligent animal .