"world"

darkened by the spelling of the new times, two words melted into one foggy word, "world":

• Middle English world
  • Old English weorold ("world")
    • Proto-West Germanic *weraldi ("world")
      • Proto-Germanic *weraldiz ("world", "lifetime")
        • Proto-Germanic *wer ("man")
          • PIE *wiHrós ("man", "hero"), "cognate" with:
            • Sanskrit वी॒र vīrá ("man")
            • Latin vir ("man"), which used homō to mean "human being"
            • Irish fear ("man")
            • Lithuanian výras ("man")
        • Proto-Germanic *aldiz ("age")

so we see that world stems from *wer and *aldiz which mean "man age":

• the "age of man (meaning both men and women)" as "anything and everything"
• the "world" as "anything and everything"

yet, bear in mind that "manage" does not mean "man age" (!)

other words to keep in mind:

• German Welt ("world")
• Swedish värld ("world")
• Dutch wereld ("world")
  • this clearly shows the link to the "old world" with its "wer" + "eld" spelling