thanney

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish tanae (“thin, slender, narrow”), from Proto-Celtic *tanauyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tana.

Adjective

thanney

1. (build) lean, lank, spare, slim, skinny, lanky, weedy, thin, scraggy
2. thin (as paper)
3. thin (of liquid), watery (of soup), weak (as solution)
4. watery (of colour)
5. attenuated, tenuous, flimsy, meagre, slender
6. hollow (as friendship)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
thanney	hanney	dhanney
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.