mooar

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mór.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muːr], [muːɹ̝], [muːə̯], [muː]
• The pronunciations [muːɹ̝], [muːə̯], [muː] are due to English influence, as perhaps is [muːr] with [uː] rather than [uə] (which is not phonemic in English). The spelling mooar possibly suggests a traditional pronunciation of [muəɾ] such the Munster Irish muar /mˠuəɾˠ/, a by-form of Irish mór.

Adjective

mooar (plural mooarey, comparative moo, superlative smoo)

1. big, great, grand, heavy, powerful, extravagant

   Bee argid mooar ass.

   It will bring in big money.

   By haittin mooar lhiam fakin ee reesht.

   It would afford me great pleasure to see her again.

   Cha nel eh lieh cho mooar as shen.

   He is not half so big as that.

   Daag eh sluight mooar ny yei.

   He left a large posterity behind.

   Diu eh ooilley lesh slug mooar.

   He drank it at a draught (literally, ‘with a big swallow’).

Derived terms

• Alistair Mooar (“Alexander the Great”)

Mutation

Mutation of mooar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mooar	vooar	unchanged

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