Maning
Maning is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of man (man) and -ing (one possessed of the quality of), cognate with Norse Menningr.
Variants:
Maninc [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 246].
Manin [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 247].
Maning [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 247].
Manninc [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 247].
Manning [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 249].
Mannic [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 266].
Man(n)ing [Mats Redin 1919 Studies on uncompounded personal names in Old English, page 168].
Mannicus [Percy Reaney 1958 A Dictionary of Surnames, 1st edition, page 213].
Note:
Mannicus is a Latinization.
Stem:
Man or mon = Mᴀɴ [William Smith 1873 A Complete Etymology of the English Language, page 132].
Suffix:
-ing = a suffix forming derivative masculine substantives, with the sense of ‘one belonging to’ or ‘of the kind of’, hence ‘one possessed of the quality of’ [Sir James Murray 1901 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 5 (I, J, K): 282].
Usage:
Maning was the name of a moneyer under King Eadgar: (approximately) “∴ / ꟽAИI / ✠✠✠ / ИGЙ• / ∵” [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 183, number 127].
