Québécois (word) la langue française mentions only a territorial meaning for "Québécois". Newspaper editor Lysiane Gagnon has referred to an ethnic sense of the word "Québécois" in both English and French. French expressions employing "Québécois" often appear in both French and English. Québécois (word) Québécois (pronounced ; feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ), ' (fem.: '), or (fem.: ) is a word used primarily to refer to a native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec, the majority of whom speak French as a mother tongue. It can refer to French spoken in Quebec. It may also be used, with an upper- or
Man (word) Man (word) The term "man" (from Proto-Germanic "*mannaz" or "*manwaz" "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their sex or age. In traditional usage, "man" (without an article) itself refers to the species, to humanity, or "mankind", as a whole. The Germanic word developed into Old English "man, mann" meaning primarily "adult male human" but secondarily capable of designating a person of unspecified gender, "someone, one" or humanity at large (see also Old Norse "maðr", Gothic "manna" "man"). "*Mannaz" or "*Manwaz" is also the Proto-Germanic reconstructed name of