mainéar

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish mainér, from Middle English maner,[1] from Old French manoir (“to stay, remain”), from Latin maneō.

Pronunciation

Noun

mainéar m (genitive singular mainéir, nominative plural mainéir)

  1. manor (landed estate), barony (any large manor or estate in Scotland)
  2. manor house
  3. grange (farm with its associated buildings)

Declension

Declension of mainéar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative mainéar mainéir
vocative a mhainéir a mhainéara
genitive mainéir mainéar
dative mainéar mainéir
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mainéar na mainéir
genitive an mhainéir na mainéar
dative leis an mainéar
don mhainéar 		leis na mainéir

Mutation

Mutated forms of mainéar
radical lenition eclipsis
mainéar mhainéar not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mainér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 263, page 93

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