faiyr

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fér, from Proto-Celtic *wegrom (“grass”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“increase, enlarge”) via a sense ‘outgrowth’.[1] Cognate with Irish féar.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /feːə/

Noun

faiyr m

  1. grass
    Ta faiyr eu ry-vuinn.
    You have grass to cut.
    Ta'n faiyr glassraghey.
    The grass is growing green.
    Vuinn mee y faiyr.
    I cut the grass.
    Yn faiyr hig magh 'sy Vayrnt hed stiagh 'syn Averil.
    The grass which comes out in March goes in in April.

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
faiyraiyrvaiyr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 409
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