shirg
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish sergaid, seircid (“becomes obsolete; shrinks, diminishes, contracts, wastes away; withers away; ebbs away; causes to diminish, lessen or shrivel up”, verb), from serg. Compare Scottish Gaelic searg.
Verb
[edit]shirg
Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| shirg | hirg after "yn", çhirg |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sergaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language