Mancis: Perbezaan antara semakan

''Mancis'' atau ''macis'' menyerap dari ungkapan [[bahasa Inggeris]] ''matches'';<ref name="Wilkinson">{{Cite dictionary|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-60272783/view?partId=nla.obj-436197639#page/n88/mode/1up/search/machis|title=machis|dictionary=A Malay-English dictionary (romanised)|last=Wilkinson|first=Richard James|publisher=Salavopoulos & Kinderlis|year=|isbn=|location=Mytilini, Yunani|quote=|date=1932|volume=II|page=83-84|via=TROVE, Perpustakaan Negara Australia}}</ref> kata ganda ''match'' serapan kata Perancis lama ''mèche'' yang bermaksud [[sumbu]] [[lilin]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kugqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA428|title=Etymologicon universale: or, Universal etymological dictionary|author=Whiter W|year=1825|volume=2|page=428|author-link=Walter Whiter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217115239/https://books.google.com/books?id=kugqAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA428&pg=PA428#v=onepage&q&f=true|archive-date=17 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> yang kemudiannya dilanjutkan juga kepada sumbu nyalaan senjata api seperti [[kancing sumbu|yang ada pada]] [[senapang]] atau [[bedil]] [[meriam]] (yakni ''matchlock'').<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/firearmsinameric01sawyrich#page/4/mode/2up/|title=Firearms in American history 1600–1800|author=Sawyer, C. W.|year=1910|page=5}}</ref>