Wiktionary claims that "människa" does mean "manish" (and that it's a direct cognate with "mensch"): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-German

Wiktionary claims that "människa" does mean "manish" (and that it's a direct cognate with "mensch"): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/manniskaz https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic... It's just that that etymology has become opaque to modern-day Germanic language speakers.