a place or district; _Maenol_ or _Mainor_, Welsh (a possession), akin to the Lat. _mansio_ and the Fr. _maison_. From this word maybe derived Maine, a province of France; Mans and Mantes, although more directly they may probably come from the _Cenomanni_, a people who formerly inhabited that district in France; Mantua, in Italy, and La Mancha, in Spain, may be placed under this head; also Manchester, anc. _Mancunium_, and Mancester, anc. _Manduessedum_; Menteith, in Perthshire, the district of the R. Teith. In the Welsh language the letter _m_ is changed into _f_ and pronounced _v_, and _fan_ abridged to _fa_, thus--Brawdfa (the place of judgment); Eisteddfa (the sitting place); Gorphwzsfa (resting place); Morfa (the shore or sea place); Manaera (the place of slaughter), probably the site of a battle; Manclochog (the ringing-stone).[4] [Sidenote: MANSUS (Lat.),] a farm or rural dwelling, to which was attached a certain portion of land. It was often contracted into _mas_, _miex_, or _mex_; _e.g._ La Manse, Mansac, Manselle, Le Mas, Beaumets, Beaumais, in France. The Manse, _i.e._ the dwelling and glebe attached to a parish in Scotland; Mains, a parish in Forfar. [Sidenote: MANTIL (Old Ger.),] the fir-tree; _e.g._ Mantilholz (the fir-wood); Mantilberg (fir-tree hill); Zimmermantil (the room or dwelling at the fir-trees). [Sidenote: MAR,] a Ger. word, used both as an affix and a prefix, with various meanings. As a prefix, it occasionally stands for _mark_ (a boundary), as in Marbrook (the boundary brook), and Marchwiail (the boundary of poles), in Wales; sometimes for a _marsh_, as in Marbach, on the Danube, and Marburg, on the Neckar; sometimes also for _mark_, an Old Ger. word for a horse, as in Marburg, on the R. Lahn, and Marburg and Mardorf (horse town), in Hesse. As an affix, it is an adjective, and signifies, in the names of places and persons, clear, bright, distinguished, or abounding in; _e.g._ Eschmar (abounding in ash-trees); Geismar (in goats); Horstmar (in wood); Weimar (in the vine). [Sidenote: MARK (Ger.), MEARC (A.S.), MARCHE (Fr.),]