poyll

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish poll (“hole”), from Old English pull, pyll (“tidal pool”) or Old Norse pollr (whence Icelandic pollur), from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool”). Cognate with Welsh pwll.

Noun

poyll m (genitive singular poyll, plural puill)

1. hole
2. pool
3. bay

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
poyll	phoyll	boyll
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), “poll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language