grayse

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish grás (compare modern Irish grás, Scottish Gaelic gràs).

Noun

grayse m (genitive singular graysh, plural grayseyn)

1. grace, virtue
2. charisma

Derived terms

• graysoil (“graceful”)
• neughraysoil (“ungraceful”)
• Ny Grayseyn m pl (“The Graces”)

Mutation

Mutation of grayse

radical	lenition	eclipsis
grayse	ghrayse	ngrayse

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), “grás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language