1894 Brewer’s / M / Man (Isle of)
called by the ancient Britons main-au (little island), Latinised into Menav-ia. Cæsar calls it Mona (i.e. Mon-ah), the Scotch pronunciation of Manau. Mona and Pliny’s Monabia are varieties of “Menavia.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.