Cognate withItalianmano(“hand”).
mân f (pluralmân,second pluralman)
- hand
- Bônamân ―tip
1540, Pier Francesco da Faenza,Commedia nuova:Vit vit, dumandie, ch'a m’ò sfogà leman e i pie contra a quest die de l'amor.- See, see, Lord, that I've ventedhands and feet on this Love deity.
- Masotti, Adelmo (1996),Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page353
mân
- inflection ofmânea:
- first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- third-personpluralpresentindicative
mân
- first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive ofmâna
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mân
- (transitive) tocaress, totouchgently
- (colloquial, intransitive) toprolong anaction
mân
- (North Central Vietnam)alternative form ofmần (todo, towork)
mân (feminine singularmân,pluralmânormanion,equativemaned,comparativemanach,superlativemanaf)
- fine
- Synonym:main
- small,little
- petty,trivial
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.