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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /murʲ/

Noun

mooir f (genitive singular marrey, plural mooiraghyn)

  1. 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

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