çhenney

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish teine, from Proto-Celtic *teɸnets (“fire”) (compare Breton and Cornish tan, Welsh tân).

Noun

çhenney m (genitive singular çhenney, plural çhentyn)

1. fire
2. (weather) lightning
3. (pathology) rickets

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
çhenney	henney	jenney
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 teine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language