thoin

Manx

Alternative forms

  • thoyn

Etymology

From Old Irish tón (“anus”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-.[2] Cognate with English thigh. Compare Scottish Gaelic tòin and Irish tóin.

Pronunciation

Noun

thoin f (genitive singular thoanney, plural thoinyn)

  1. arse, bum, buttocks
  2. backside, posterior, rear

Mutation

Mutation of thoin
radical lenition eclipsis
thoin hoin dhoin

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), “tón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 393
  3. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 70
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