manid

English

Etymology

From Manis + -id or from Manidae.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmænɪd/

Noun

manid (plural manids)

  1. (zoology) pangolin

References

  • manid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of (if) + (not) + is (is)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmanʲiðʲ/

Verb

manid

  1. if (it) is not
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d26
      massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg
      if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay
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