bwoirrin

Manx

Alternative forms

• bwoirryn

Etymology

From Old Irish boinenn.

Adjective

bwoirrin

1. female
2. feminine
3. effeminate
4. ladylike

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bwoirrin	woirrin	mwoirrin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “boinenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language