mainéar

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:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mainéar mainéir
Vocative a mhainéir a mhainéara
Genitive mainéir mainéar
Dative mainéar mainéir

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mainéar na mainéir
Genitive an mhainéir na mainéar
Dative leis an mainéar

don mhainéar

 leis na mainéir

Mutation
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
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mainér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 93

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