See also: tóig

Mansaka edit

Etymology edit

From tuig.

Noun edit

toig

  1. year

Manx edit

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Etymology edit

From Middle Irish tuicid, from Old Irish ·tucci, prototonic form of do·ucai (to understand), from Proto-Celtic *unketi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁unékti, *h₁unkénti (to get used to, learn, nasal infix present) from the root *h₁ewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian jùnkti (to get used to) and Armenian ուսանել (usanel, to learn).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

toig (past hoig, verbal noun toiggal, past participle toiggit)

  1. understand, comprehend
  2. realize, construe, figure

Mutation edit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
toig hoig doig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *-u-n-k-e/o- 'verstehen'”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 653
  2. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) “ucc-”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume T U, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page U-13

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