goayr

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish gabor (“goat, horse”), from Proto-Celtic *gabros (“he-goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“he-goat”).

Noun

goayr f or m (genitive singular goayrey or goair, plural goair)

1. goat

   S’doillee eh geddyn ollan voish goayr.

   One can’t get wool from a goat.

2. scad
3. stooge

Derived terms

• bock goayr (“billygoat”)
• Çhyndaa yn Ghoayr (“Tropic of Capricorn”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
goayr	ghoayr	ngoayr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gabor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language