manaþ

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mainaiþaz, equivalent to mān +‎ āþ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːnˌɑːθ/

Noun

mānāþ m

1. perjury, false oath

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	mānāþ	mānāþas
accusative	mānāþ	mānāþas
genitive	mānāþes	mānāþa
dative	mānāþe	mānāþum

Descendants

• Middle English: monoth, manath, manwaþ, maineath
  • Scots: mane-atht

See also

• forswerian (“to perjure”)
• mānswara (“perjurer”)

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mānāþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.