Manx edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish tanae (thin, slender, narrow), from Proto-Celtic *tanauyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tana.

Adjective edit

thanney

  1. (build) lean, lank, spare, slim, skinny, lanky, weedy, thin, scraggy
  2. thin (as paper)
  3. thin (of liquid), watery (of soup), weak (as solution)
  4. watery (of colour)
  5. attenuated, tenuous, flimsy, meagre, slender
  6. hollow (as friendship)

Mutation edit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
thanney hanney dhanney
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.