a leprechaun-like creature that is friendly to humans and prefers darkness · goblin, bugbear (imaginary evil personality)
çekim: çoğul menninkäiset · tamlayan menninkäisen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *mendinkä(inen), borrowed from early Proto-Germanic *menþingō (later *minþingō), compare Icelandic minning (“memory (of the deceased)”).