lheiney

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish léine (compare Irish léine, Scottish Gaelic lèine).

Noun

lheiney f (genitive singular lheiney, plural lheintyn)

1. shirt

Derived terms

• lheiney-T (“t-shirt”)

Further reading

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