cleayn

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish cláenaid, a denominative verb from Old Irish clóen. Cognate with Irish claon and Scottish Gaelic claon.

Verb

cleayn (verbal noun cleayney, past participle cleaynit or cleaynt)

1. divert, deviate, bank, list, veer, incline
2. stoop
3. attract, seduce, inveigle
4. influence, dispose, induce
5. decoy
6. distort
7. draw off, recede
8. tend (as garden)
9. circumvent

Derived terms

• co-chleayn

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cleayn	chleayn	gleayn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.