kiark

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cerc.

Noun

kiark f (genitive singular kirkey, plural kiarkyn)

1. fowl
2. hen, female (of birds)

Derived terms

• connagh ny giark (“henbane”)
• ooh-chirkey (“hen's egg”)
• paal-chirkey (“hen coop”)
• shirragh ny giark (“hen harrier”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
kiark	chiark	giark
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), “cerc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language