taaue

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish tám (“plague; swoon, stupor”),[1] possibly from Proto-Celtic *tāmus. Cognate with Irish támh and Scottish Gaelic tàmh.

Pronunciation

Noun

taaue f (genitive singular taaue, plural taauenyn)

  1. nausea, retching
  2. (only in phrase my haaue, ny haaue, etc.) idle, out of employment
    Honnick mee ad shassoo nyn daaue moghrey jiu ― I saw them standing idle this morning
    Cha vow laue ny haaue veg ― An idle hand will reive nothing

Derived terms

  • taauernee
  • taaueynee

Mutation

Mutation of taaue
radical lenition eclipsis
taaue haaue daaue

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), “tám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI
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