geyre

Manx

Alternative forms

• gear, geayr

Etymology

From Middle Irish gér, from Old Irish gér. Cognate with Irish géar, Scottish Gaelic geur.

Adjective

geyre

1. sharp, keen
2. sour, acid

Mutation

Mutation of geyre

radical	lenition	eclipsis
geyre	gheyre	ngeyre

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

Further reading

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