giar
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Manx[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish gerrad (“cutting, lopping, felling”).
Verb[edit]
giar (verbal noun giarrey)
- (transitive) cut, cut back, prune, clip, dissect, shear, hack, incise, slit, carve, slash, sever
- (transitive, card games) cut (cards)
- (transitive, medicine) castrate, lance
- (transitive) disconnect
- (transitive) cut short, crop (as tail)
- (transitive) abbreviate, condense, abridge
- Synonyms: aagherr, girree, jean ny s'girrey
- (transitive) intersect
- Synonym: cross
Derived terms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| giar | yiar | ngiar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||