Manapii
| Manapii | |
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| File:Ptolemy's Ireland.png Tribes according to Ptolemy | |
| Ethnicity | Celts |
| Location | Ireland |
| Religion | Ancient Celtic religion |
The Manapii (Ancient Greek: Μανάπιοι) are an ancient tribe from southeastern Ireland mentioned by Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD.
They were later attested as (Fir) Manach (var. Manaig, Monaig) in the Early Christian period, a tribe dwelling further north in County Down and near Lough Erne which gave its name to the modern County Fermanagh.[1][2] Early Irish genealogists mentioned that the Manaig had emigrated from the south of Leinster.[1]
Name
[edit | edit source]The ethnonym Manapii has been phonetically compared and associated with the Belgae Menapii tribe, living in northern Gaul at the Flemish North Sea. They were first recorded in the 1st century BC.[1][2]
Those names may ultimately derive from a Proto-Celtic form reconstructed as *Menakwī or *Manakwī.[3] The etymology is uncertain. It could mean the 'mountain people' or the 'high-living people', from the root *mon- ('mountain', cf. MWelsh mynydd, OBret. monid), or else derive from the root *men- ('think, remember'; cf. OIr. muinithir 'think', Welsh mynnu 'wish').[4][3]
According to scholar Patrick Sims-Williams, the name Manapii may have been imported by settlers from Britain, for it shows a P-Celtic form that possibly came to be assimilated in the local Irish dialect as *Manakwī > Manaig.[2]
In Belgium the etymology is accepted as meaning: the people living on or near water.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Foster 2000, p. 4.
- ^ a b c Sims-Williams 2007, pp. 329–330.
- ^ a b Falileyev 2010, s.v. Menapii.
- ^ Isaac, Graham, "Place-Names in Ptolemy's Geography : An Electronic Data Base with Etymological Analysis of Celtic Name Elements". CD-ROM. 2004, CMCS Publications, Aberystwyth.
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