manaois

See also: meánaois, Meánaois, and Manaois

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish manaís (“large spear with broad head and sharp point”).

Noun

manaois f (genitive singular manaoise, nominative plural manaoisí)

1. (literary) broad spear

Declension

Declension of manaois (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative manaois manaoisí vocative a mhanaois a mhanaoisí genitive manaoise manaoisí dative manaois manaoisí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an mhanaois na manaoisí genitive na manaoise na manaoisí dative leis an manaois don mhanaois leis na manaoisí

• Alternative plural: manaoiseacha

Etymology 2

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Noun

manaois f (genitive singular manaoise)

1. (act of) dallying, toying (le (“with”))

Declension

Declension of manaois (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative manaois vocative a mhanaois genitive manaoise dative manaois forms with the definite article case singular nominative an mhanaois genitive na manaoise dative leis an manaois don mhanaois

Derived terms

• manaoiseach (“dallying, shilly-shallying”, adjective)
• manaoiseoir m (“shilly-shallier”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of manaois

radical	lenition	eclipsis
manaois	mhanaois	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

• 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