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boayl

Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ball,[1] from Proto-Celtic *ballos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”); compare English ball, Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”). Cognate with Irish ball and Scottish Gaelic ball.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boayl m (genitive singular boayl, plural buill or boayllyn)

  1. place

Mutation

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Mutation of boayl
radical lenition eclipsis
boayl voayl moayl

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “boayl”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 101
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