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New Year Manx Phrases
Yn Vlein Noa
New Year is called "Yn Vlein Noa" in Manx. The phrase to know first is "Blein Vie Noa!" (Happy New Year!).
The Manx New Year greeting is Blein Vie Noa, "a good new year". Here are the greetings, the lines for saying "see you in the new year" to one person or several, and the Manx words for New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and the first-footer.
Greetings
Blein Vie Noa!
Happy New Year!
Literally "a good new year". Vie is a form of mie, "good".
Blein Vaynrey Noa!
Happy New Year!
A second form in the dictionary. Maynrey means "happy".
For cards and messages
Bannaghtyn y Vlein Noa
New Year greetings
A heading or opening line for a New Year card.
Hee'm oo 'sy vlein noa
See you in the new year (to one person)
Use oo for one person.
Hee'm shiu 'sy vlein noa
See you in the new year (to more than one, or polite)
Use shiu for a group, or politely.
Shee erriu car ny bleeaney shoh cheet
Peace to you throughout the coming year
A card line for more than one person.
Useful words
Oie ny Bleeaney Noa
New Year's Eve
Also Oie Nollick Veg, "the night of little Christmas".
Laa yn Vlein Noa
New Year's Day
Also Laa Nollick Beg, "little Christmas Day".
quaaltagh
first-footer
The first visitor of the New Year, who brings the luck.
The history of Yn Vlein Noa
Manx blein, "year", comes from Old Irish blíadain and is the same word as Irish bliain and Scottish Gaelic bliadhna. On the Isle of Man, as in Scotland, the first person to enter a house on New Year's Day is believed to bring the luck for the coming year. In Manx this first-footer is the quaaltagh. New Year's Day was also called Laa Nollick Beg, "little Christmas Day".
Common questions
How do you say Happy New Year in Manx?
Blein Vie Noa. The dictionary also gives Blein Vaynrey Noa.
New Year in the other Celtic languages
Further reading
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Sources
Every phrase and fact on this page was checked against the sources below. Last checked 2026-10-20.
- Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org
- Wikipedia
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): Manx–English: quaaltagh
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): English–Manx: New Year's Day
- Culture Vannin
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): Manx–English: Blein Vie Noa
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): English–Manx: Happy New Year
- blas. course data
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): Manx–English: maynrey
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): English–Manx: New Year Greetings
- Learn Manx (Culture Vannin)
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): Manx–English: Oie ny Bleeaney Noa
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): Manx–English: Oie Nollick Veg
- Phil Kelly, Manx dictionaries (learnmanx.com, January 2026): English–Manx: first-footer
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