shirgey

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sergad (“lessening, abating, diminishing; act of wasting away, withering”), verbal noun of sergaid (Manx shirg, Scottish Gaelic searg). Compare Scottish Gaelic seargadh.

Noun

shirgey m (genitive singular shirgey, no plural)

1. mummification

Derived terms

• shirgane m (“mummy”)

Related terms

• shirg (“mummify”, verb)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
shirgey	hirgey after "yn", çhirgey	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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