mooir

Manx

Alternative forms

• muir

Etymology

From Old Irish muir (compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic muir), from Proto-Celtic *mori (compare Welsh môr), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (compare Latin mare, English mere, German Meer, Dutch meer).

Noun

mooir f (genitive singular marrey, plural mooiraghyn)

1. sea

   Er çheer as er mooir. ― By land and sea.

   Ta'n eeast shoh snaue er eaghtyr ny marrey. ― These fish swim on the top of the sea.

Synonyms

• faarkey
• Juan Gorrym
• keayn

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ard-marragh (“admiral”)
• breck marrey (“mackerel”)
• caillagh varrey (“hagfish; guillemot”)
• cliwe marrey (“cutlass”)
• coo ny marrey (“walrus”)
• feeagh marrey (“shag”)
• gollan marrey (“common tern”)
• gollan marrey breck (“spotted redshank”)

• ree ny marrey (“herring”)
• shlig varrey (“seashell”)
• urley marrey (“white-tailed eagle”)
• Yn Vooir Antarctagh (“Southern Ocean, Antarctic Ocean”)
• Yn Vooir Arctagh (“Arctic Ocean”)
• Yn Vooir Charibagh (“Caribbean Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Chaspagh (“Caspian Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Cheltiagh (“Celtic Sea”)

• Yn Vooir Ghoo (“Black Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Ruy (“Red Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Valtagh (“Baltic Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Vane (“White Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Varroo (“Dead Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Vuigh (“Yellow Sea”)
• Yn Vooir Yiass (“South Sea”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mooir	vooir	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “muir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.