The reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciation of the Chinese word is /ni/. The Chinese character used in East Asian languages is 人, originating as a pictogram of a human being. Slavic čelověkъ also is of uncertain etymology. Greek ἄνθρωπος ( anthropos) is of uncertain, possibly pre-Greek origin. The Arabic word has been influential in the Islamic world, and was adopted in many Turkic languages. This is comparable to the Semitic word for "man", represented by Arabic insan إنسان (cognate with Hebrew ʼenōš אֱנוֹשׁ), from a root for "sick, mortal". Other Indo-European languages name man for his mortality, *mr̥tós meaning "mortal", so in Armenian mard, Persian mard, Sanskrit marta and Greek βροτός meaning "mortal human". Etymologically, it may be an ethnic or racial classification (after "reddish" skin colour contrasting with both "white" and "black"), but Genesis takes it to refer to the reddish colour of earth, as in the narrative the first man is formed from earth. This is comparable to the explanation given in the Genesis narrative to the Hebrew Adam (אָדָם) "man", derived from a word for "red, reddish-brown". It has cognates in Baltic (Old Prussian zmūi), Germanic (Gothic guma) and Celtic (Old Irish duine). Latin homo is derived from an Indo-European root dʰǵʰm- "earth", as it were "earthling". The etymon of man is found in the Germanic languages, and is cognate with Manu, the name of the human progenitor in Hindu mythology, and found in Indic terms for "man" ( manuṣya, manush, manava etc.). The Indo-European languages have a number of inherited terms for mankind. Look up human_being#Translations in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The common name of the human species in English is historically man (from Germanic), often replaced by the Latinate human (since the 16th century). In addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens ( Latin: "sapient human", Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have been created to refer to various aspects of the human character.
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