çhengey

Manx

FWOTD – 9 January 2013

Etymology

From Old Irish tengae, from Proto-Celtic *tangʷāss, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛnʲə/

Noun

çhengey f (genitive singular çhengey, plural çhengaghyn)

1. language, speech
   • 2003, Carn, Celtic League, Vol. 118-132

     Son Bretyn, va Jeremy Turner credjal dy lajer dy vel ellyn ny aght niartal ry hoi aavioghey çhengey.

     For Wales, Jeremy Turner believed strongly that art is a powerful method for reviving a language.

2. (anatomy) tongue

Derived terms

• çhengagh (“of or relating to tongues; linguistic”, adjective)
• çhengeyder (“linguist”)
• çhengoaylleeaght (“linguistics”)
• daa-hengagh (“bilingual”, adjective)
• daa-hengaght (“bilingualism”)
• un-çhengagh (“monolingual, unilingual”, adjective)
• yl-çhengagh (“polyglot”, adjective)

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
çhengey	hengey	jengey
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tengae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language