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manaois

manaois

Irish

Noun

manaois f ‎(genitive singular manaoise, nominative plural manaoisí)

(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

Noun

manaois f ‎(genitive singular manaoise)

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

Declension

Declension of manaois

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
manaois	mhanaois	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"manaois" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“manaís” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.