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Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish fid,[1] from Proto-Celtic *widus, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu-, whence also Old English wudu. Cognate with Irish fiodh and Scottish Gaelic fiodh.
Pronunciation
Noun
fuygh m (genitive singular fuygh, no plural)
- wood, timber
Ayns yn yeurey, v’eh cliaghtey giarrey laadyn trome dy fuygh son aile.- In the winter, he used to cut heavy loads of wood for fire
Jyst beg dy fuygh lane eeym.- A small wooden bowl full of butter.
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 177