Could it be like in my post man means hand, ie an animal with hands.
What older language might have used man for hand and perhaps passed
it into Latin.

Try reading Genesis Foxy. Tells you clearly where not only the term but also male and female comes from.

Female: from Old French femelle, from Latin femella, diminutive of femina ‘a woman’. The change in the ending was due to association with male, but the words male and female are not linked etymologically.

Woman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman#Etymology

Human: late Middle English humaine, from Old French humain(e), from Latin humanus, from homo ‘man, human being’.

//Try reading Genesis Foxy. Tells you clearly where not only the term but also male and female comes from.//

A book written in Hebrew well before the emergence of Modern English contains detailed etymological information about Modern English words? Yeah, sounds legit. [sarcasm]

Thank You Everyone for all your inputs.

As I stated earlier - this is fun - and
am learning a lot. ;-)

Runner,

Do you mean the ancient Hebrew-language version or the King James version of the English translation of the Greek translation of the Aramaic version of the Hebrew ?

Most of the languages have some direct path from Latin.
One of these being a direct descendant from Latin was Italian.
Many words sound similar to Italian, which can then be traced back to it's Latin/Greek beginnings.
Latin was adopted by the Greeks and then again by the ROMANS who became Italians.
The following are some of the current Italian words and their English counterparts.
The word 'UOMO' meaning 'man' immediately demonstrates this.
As do; 'UMANO', human.
The months of the year, GENAIO, January. FEBRAIO, February. MARZO, March, NOVEMBRE, November, DICEMBRE, December, and so on.
The numerical system; UNO, one. DUE, two. TRE, Three. and so on.
As time passed and much later kings and queens married French and Germans and we introduced some of their inflections, the use of the 'ough' in words, like cough or rough.
French was a little more difficult as it has so many silent letters but it accepted some Latin words in return.
One that comes to mind is the word silence.
Very similar in Italian English and French.
I'm not sure how to pronounce it in French but it is similar to Italian, which is; SILENSIO.
I am very rusty on this topic but I'm somewhere in the ball park.
All Latin countries have adopted the Greek/Italian 'speak' as their 'native' language.