shirgey
Manx
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editshirgey m (genitive singular shirgey, no plural)
Derived terms
edit- shirgane m (“mummy”)
Related terms
edit- shirg (“mummify”, verb)
Mutation
editManx mutation | ||
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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
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sergad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language