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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 teine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language