thanney
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Manx[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish tanae (“thin, slender, narrow”), from Proto-Celtic *tanauyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tana.
Adjective[edit]
thanney
- (build) lean, lank, spare, slim, skinny, lanky, weedy, thin, scraggy
- thin (as paper)
- thin (of liquid), watery (of soup), weak (as solution)
- watery (of colour)
- attenuated, tenuous, flimsy, meagre, slender
- hollow (as friendship)
Mutation[edit]
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| thanney | hanney | dhanney |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||