§ [117]. Masculins with short (consonantal) cases: manna, man; mênôþs, month; reiks, ruler; weitwôds, witness (cp. [§ 74], n. 2). But in point of inflection they ar not fully alike.
(1) manna follows in sum cases the n-decl. (guma, [§ 107]). These cases ar here put in Italics:
| Sing. | N. | manna | Plur. | N. | mans, mannans |
| G. | mans | G. | mannê | ||
| D. | mann | D. | mannam | ||
| A. | mannan | A. | mans, mannans |
Note 1. To manna belongs the cpd. *alamans (all men), found in the dat. pl. alamannam (Skeir.) only; also the neuter gaman (cumpanion, cumpany) which inflects, however, in all the extant forms (nom. acc. sg. gaman, dat. sg. gamana, dat. pl. gamanam) precisely like waúrd ([§ 93]).
Note 2. In composition the stem mana- (man-) appears; s. [§ 88a], n. 3.
(2) mênôþs and reiks follow in the g. sg. the a-decl.: mênôþis, reikis, but in the dat. sg. the short forms mênôþ and reik (Eph. II, 2) occur. In the nom. acc. pl. the short forms mênôþs and reiks ar uzed; gen. pl. reikê. In the dat. pl. mênôþum, but reikam.—Beside the nom. sg. weitwôds there occur the acc. sg. weitwôd and the g. pl. weitwôdê.
Note 3. The g. sg. mênôþis (Neh. VI, 15) is not quite certain; Löbe red mênôþs.
Note 4. Here belongs also the nom. bajôþs, dat. bajôþum, both (s. [§ 140], n. 1).
§ [118]. The neuter fôn, fire, has this form in the nom. acc. sg., but funins in the gen., and funin in the dat.—No plural occurs. Cp. [§ 12], n. 3.