mainéar
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish mainér, from Middle English maner,[1] from Old French manoir (“to stay, remain”), from Latin maneō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mainéar m (genitive singular mainéir, nominative plural mainéir)
- manor (landed estate), barony (any large manor or estate in Scotland)
- manor house
- grange (farm with its associated buildings)
Declension[edit]
Declension of mainéar
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mainéar | mhainéar | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mainér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 93
Further reading[edit]
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “mainéar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mainéar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (stay)
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle English
- Irish terms derived from Old French
- Irish terms derived from Latin
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- ga:Agriculture
- ga:Buildings
- ga:Feudalism