shirg

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sergaid, seircid (“becomes obsolete; shrinks, diminishes, contracts, wastes away; withers away; ebbs away; causes to diminish, lessen or shrivel up”, verb), from serg. Compare Scottish Gaelic searg.

Verb

shirg

1. (transitive, intransitive) mummify

Related terms

• shirgane m (“mummy”)
• shirgey m (“mummification”)

Mutation

Mutation of shirg

radical	lenition	eclipsis
shirg	hirg after "yn", çhirg	unchanged

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

Further reading

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