toig

See also: tóig and tőig

Mansaka

Etymology

From tuig.

Noun

toig

  1. year

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuicid, from Old Irish ·tucci, prototonic form of do·ucai (“to understand”), from Proto-Celtic *unketi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁unékti, *h₁unkénti (“to get used to, learn”, nasal infix present) from the root *h₁ewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian jùnkti (“to get used to”) and Armenian ուսանել (usanel, “to learn”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiɡʲ/

Verb

toig (past hoig, verbal noun toiggal, past participle toiggit)

  1. understand, comprehend
  2. realize, construe, figure

Mutation

Mutation of toig
radical lenition eclipsis
toig hoig doig

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

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *-u-n-k-e/o- 'verstehen'”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 653
  2. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) “ucc-”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume T U, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page U-13

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