Manx edit

Noun edit

cooat m (genitive singular cooat, plural cooatyn)

  1. coat
    • Hug ee mo'ee e cooat.
      • She donned her coat.
    • Nee yn cooat shen ceau dy mie.
      • That coat will last well.
    • T'ee çheerey y cooat aym ec yn aile.
      • She's drying my coat at the fire.
    • Ta'n cooat croghey dy jesh voish ny geayltyn.
      • The coat fits well in the shoulders.

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Mutation edit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cooat chooat gooat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Etymology edit

From Middle English cote, from Old French cotte, from Latin cotta.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cooat

  1. coat
    • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 3-5:
      Hea daffed his cooat, pidh it an a bushe, an begaan to peale a cooat, an zide,
      He took off his coat, put it on a bush, and began to beat the coat, and said,

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References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 110