shirgey
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Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish sergad (“lessening, abating, diminishing; act of wasting away, withering”), verbal noun of sergaid (Manx shirg, Scottish Gaelic searg). Compare Scottish Gaelic seargadh.
Noun
[edit]shirgey m (genitive singular shirgey, no plural)
Derived terms
[edit]- shirgane m (“mummy”)
Related terms
[edit]- shirg (“mummify”, verb)
Mutation
[edit]| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| shirgey | hirgey after "yn", çhirgey |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sergad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language