Save Gender Masculine Usage Medieval Polish Pronounced Pron. ma-NAW-meer(Old Polish) [key] Meaning & History Derived from Old Church Slavonic mamiti "to deceive, to beguile, to entice" (compare Sudovian manit "to seduce, to entice", Russian manitj "to entice, to tempt" and modern Polish mamić "to lure, to entice") and Slavic mir "peace".