fuygh

Manx

Alternative forms

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)

  1. 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

Mutation of fuygh
radical lenition eclipsis
fuygh uygh vuygh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 177
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