giar

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish gerrad (“cutting, lopping, felling”).

Verb

giar (verbal noun giarrey)

1. (transitive) cut, cut back, prune, clip, dissect, shear, hack, incise, slit, carve, slash, sever
2. (transitive, card games) cut (cards)
3. (transitive, medicine) castrate, lance
4. (transitive) disconnect
5. (transitive) cut short, crop (as tail)
6. (transitive) abbreviate, condense, abridge

   Synonyms: aagherr, girree, jean ny s'girrey

7. (transitive) intersect

   Synonym: cross

Derived terms

• aayiar

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
giar	yiar	ngiar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.