çhenney

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish teine, from Proto-Celtic *teɸnets (“fire”) (compare Breton and Cornish tan, Welsh tân).

Noun

çhenney m (genitive singular çhenney, plural çhentyn)

  1. fire
  2. (weather) lightning
  3. (pathology) rickets

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
çhenneyhenneyjenney
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “1 teine” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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