Manx words — page 9

bullock

street

string

to tug

to destroy

nose

destroyed

current

stream

Manx cat

lad

standard

to sound

gospel

gospeler

interest

to summon

summons, bann; citation

summoner

convened, summoned; cited

higher

is, are (substantive)

table

draw

secretion; lactation

thunder

nausea

to happen

happening, occurrence, event, incident; contingency; accident, chance, fluke

show

tenant

tenantry

to come

bull

busy

industry

to carry

rope

dough

axe

to elect

to pick

picker

text

step

tailor

land

earthborn

lean

common

thaw

house

arse

a ruin of a house

idiot

Tory

Toryism

three

tide

throwing

Tynwald

tone

product

smoke

smoking; fumigation

dowry

understand

acute

understanding

desert (that which is deserved)

deserve

deserved

tobacco

wave

undulating

anguish

gift

to start

beginning

hole

dimension

giving; presentation; transmission, transmittal

when (subordinator)

time; duration

pernicious

to squeeze

squeezing; pressure

plough

ploughed

train

beach

beach

strong

three

third

pitiable

to nail

nail

weight

sad

travelling

traveller

journey

to lift

absorption; structure, edifice; elaboration, development

lifted, lofted, elevated; reared, raised, bred, trained; built

rook

heavy

through

trews

cigarette

to fall

understanding

north

elbow

window

ready

of or from Ulster

one

base

ash

one

identity

onion

eagle

interest

bird

watery

watering, irrigation

water

water

Second person singular informal emphatic personal pronoun

was, were

to be

none

from

is? are? (interrogative)

from

advantage

profitable

to sew

stitch, seam; suture

yawl

Irish

Irish

iron

wonder

wonderful

many

use

necessity

necessary

carry

transport, carrying, conveyance; birth, gestation; attitude, appearance, comportment, behaviour

the

place

only

education

training, pedagogy

instruct

instructive

educator