maunna

Scots

Alternative forms

manna
maunnae

Etymology

maun (“must”) +‎ -na

Verb

maunna

mustn't
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
  I'll gie you a bit canny advice, and ye maunna speir what for neither
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
  And then she changed her voice and would be as saft as honey: 'My puir wee Ailie, was I thrawn till ye? Never mind, my bonnie. You and me are a' that's left, and we maunna be ill to ither.'
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