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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish manaís (“large spear with broad head and sharp point”).
Noun
manaois f (genitive singular manaoise, nominative plural manaoisí)
- (literary) broad spear
Declension
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
manaois f (genitive singular manaoise)
- (act of) dallying, toying (le (“with”))
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| manaois
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mhanaois
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “manaois”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “manaís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language