cretoor

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish crétúir (modern Irish créatúr), ultimately from Late Latin creātūra, likely via English creature or a Romance language.

Noun

cretoor m (genitive singular cretoor, plural cretooryn)

1. creature, animal

Mutation

Mutation of cretoor

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cretoor	chretoor	gretoor

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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