thanney

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish tanae (thin, slender, narrow), from Proto-Celtic *tanawyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us.

Adjective

thanney

  1. (build) lean, lank, spare, slim, skinny, lanky, weedy, thin, scraggy
  2. thin (as paper)
  3. thin (of liquid), watery (of soup), weak (as solution)
  4. watery (of colour)
  5. attenuated, tenuous, flimsy, meagre, slender
  6. hollow (as friendship)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
thanney hanney dhanney
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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