mooir
Manx
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish muir (compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic muir), from Proto-Celtic *mori (compare Welsh môr), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (compare Latin mare, English mere, German Meer, Dutch meer).
Noun
mooir f (genitive singular marrey, plural mooiraghyn)
Derived terms
- ard-marragh (“admiral”)
- breck marrey (“mackerel”)
- caillagh varrey (“hagfish; guillemot”)
- cliwe marrey (“cutlass”)
- coo ny marrey (“walrus”)
- feeagh marrey (“shag”)
- gollan marrey (“common tern”)
- gollan marrey breck (“spotted redshank”)
- ree ny marrey (“herring”)
- shlig varrey (“seashell”)
- urley marrey (“white-tailed eagle”)
- Yn Vooir Antarctagh (“Southern Ocean, Antarctic Ocean”)
- Yn Vooir Arctagh (“Arctic Ocean”)
- Yn Vooir Charibagh (“Caribbean Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Chaspagh (“Caspian Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Cheltiagh (“Celtic Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Ghoo (“Black Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Ruy (“Red Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Valtagh (“Baltic Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Vane (“White Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Varroo (“Dead Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Vuigh (“Yellow Sea”)
- Yn Vooir Yiass (“South Sea”)
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mooir | vooir | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- “muir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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