shirgey
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish sergad (“lessening, abating, diminishing; act of wasting away, withering”), verbal noun of sergaid (Manx shirg, Scottish Gaelic searg). Compare Scottish Gaelic seargadh.
Noun
[edit]shirgey m (genitive singular shirgey, no plural)
Derived terms
[edit]- shirgane m (“mummy”)
Related terms
[edit]- shirg (“mummify”, verb)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| shirgey | hirgey after "yn", çhirgey |
unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sergad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language