mooir

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Alternative forms

muir

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).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /murʲ/

Noun

mooir f (genitive singular marrey, plural mooiraghyn)

sea
Er çheer as er mooir. ― By land and sea.

Ta'n eeast shoh snaue er eaghtyr ny marrey. ― These fish swim on the top of the sea.

Synonyms

faarkey
Juan Gorrym (lit. "blue John", fishermen's slang)
keayn

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

Mutation of *mooir*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
mooir	vooir	unchanged

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), “muir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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