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