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

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
grayse	ghrayse	ngrayse
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), “grás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language