Cregeen's Dictionary


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ny; a prefix or particle used in composition, and when prefixed to adjectives makes the comparative <case>[degree]; as, ny share (better); ny saa (younger), &c.; and when prefixed to other words signified, literally, a, in English; as in ny vud (among); ny chour (for him), but more literally it would be (a for him); ny hrooid literally (a through him).


ny; adv. not. This word, which is a corruption of nagh, ought not to be. See nagh.


ny; art. pl. the, the article used before plural nouns; it is also used before [feminine] singular nouns in the genitive or ownership case; as, eaghtyr ny hooirrey (the surface of the earth, or rather the earth’s surface); skianyn ny geayee (the wings of the wind, or more literally the wind’s wings); cliaghtey ny çheerey (the country’s custom). It is also used for the article a and an, as in the service of baptism, ny heirey (an heir); ny henn ghooinney (an old man); ny vreagerey (a liar); ny lomarcan (alone).


ny; conj. or, nor; as, eshyn ny mish (he or I); dooinney ny ben (man or woman); ny mish (nor I); ny eshyn (nor he).


ny hagglish; s. of the Church or body of believers. A


ny hainleyn; s. the angels. A


ny hanmey; a. d. of the soul. A


ny hashoonee; s. the nations, the people of nations. A


ny hawin; a. d. of the river. A


nyn maagh; s. your, &c. beast. B


nyn meiyn; s. pl. your, &c. beasts. B


nyn maaieagh; s. your, &c. cowhouse. B


nyn maair; s. your, &c. crop; pl. -yn. B


nyn mhir; s. your, &c. crops. B


nyn <maase or> maash; s. your, &c. visage.


nyn maarail; s. your, &c. spending. B


nyn maare; s. your, &c. point. B


nyn Maarle; s. your, &c. English.


nyn maase or maaish; s. your, &c. death. B


nyn maatey; s. your, &c. boat. B


nyn mab; s. your, &c. baby. B


nyn maccagh; s. your, &c. halt, &c. person. B


nyn maggyrt; v. your, &c. threatening, &c. B


nyn maggyrey; s. your, &c. threatener. B


nyn maght; s. your, &c. observation, &c. B


nyn maih; v. your, &c. drowning. B


nyn mainney; s. your, &c. milk. B


nyn malley; s. your, &c. town, estate. B


nyn maljyn; s. your, &c. towns, estates. B


nyn maneagh; v. your, &c. whitening. B


nyn manjagh; s. your, &c. lea land. B


nyn mangan; s. your, &c. branch. B


nyn manglane; s. your, &c. bough. B


nyn manisthie; s. your, &c. management of house affairs. B


nyn mannaghey; v. your, &c. blessing. B


nyn mannaght; s. your, &c. blessing. B


nyn mannish; s. your, &c. wedding. B


nyn manshyn or manjyn; s. your, &c. weddings. B


nyn mardoonagh; s. your, &c. tragical poet. B


nyn mardoon; s. your, &c. doleful song. B


nyn margane; s. your, &c. bargain. B


nyn marnagh; s. your, &c. limpit, flitter. B


nyn maarney; s. your, &c. gap; pl. 67. B


nyn marragh; s. your, &c. tow. B


nyn marrant; s. your, &c. assurance. B


nyn marrantys; s. your, &c. confidence, warrantry. B


nyn marriaght; s. your, &c. victory. B


nyn mart; s. your, &c. burden. B


nyn mashlagh; s. your, &c. dash of water. B


nyn mashtey; s. your, &c. baptism. B


nyn maskaid; s. your, &c. basket. B


nyn mass; s. your, &c. palm; pl. -yn; Jud. vii. 6: As yn earroo ocsyn ren giu ass nyn mass, va three cheead dooinney: agh ren ooilley yn chooid elley jeh’n pobble croymmey sheese er nyn glioonyn dy iu ushtey. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. B


nyn mayr; s. your, &c. lane or way. B


nyn mayrn; s. your, &c. cap. B


nyn mea; s. your, &c. life, the conduct or general manner a person behaves in life. B


nyn meaghey; s. your, &c. food, sustenance, victuals.


nyn meaghey; s. your, &c. living,


nyn meaynid; s. your, &c. eternity or eternal duration. B


nyn meaynnee; s. your, &c. reaper. B


nyn mee; s. your, &c. meat, food.


nyn meeal; s. your, &c. mouth. B


nyn meealaghyn; s. your, &c. bridle bits. B


nyn meealerey; s. your, &c. babbler. B


nyn meealeragh; v. your, &c. babbling. B


nyn meealloo; a. d. their, &c. of the mouth or before their mouth. B


  ny slooid; conj. unless, except, if not. Prov. “Ta keeayll ommidjys ny slooid ny t’ee ec dooinney creeney dy reayll.” [Wit is foolishness, unless a wise man has it to keep.]


nyn meg; s. your, &c. little. B


  nyn meggan; s. your, dim. of little. B


  ny veggan as ny veggan; adv. by little and little, gradually. B


nyn meggid; s. your, &c. littleness. B


nyn meihllaghyn; s. your, &c. grindings. B


nyn meisht; s. your, &c. brute; pl. -yn.


nyn men; s. your, &c. wife or woman. B


nyn merçhys; s. your, &c. riches. B


nyn mhir; s. your, &c. spits. B


nyn mhittag; s. your, &c. milk for churning. B


nyn mhow; s. your, &c. bow. B


nyn murtag; s. your, &c. blunt knife. B


nyn mhut; s. your, &c. prop or support. B


nyn muttag; your, &c. buttag. B


nyn miallys; s. your, &c. subjection, obedience.


nyn mieauid; s. your, &c. speed, &c. B


nyn milley; s. your, &c. tree. B


nyn miljyn; s. your, &c. trees. B


nyn mine; s. your, &c. drop. B


nyn mingys; s. your, &c. music.


nyn ming; s. your, &c. jury. B


nyn mioys; s. your, &c. life; pl. -yn. B


nyn mishagh or mishaghey; v. your, &c. increasing or multiplying. B


nyn mitçhey; s. your, &c. bitch. B


nyn mite; s. your, &c. bait. B


nyn mite; s. your, &c. wick. B


nyn mlaa; s. your, &c. bloom. B


nyn mlakey; v. your, &c. gazing. B


nyn mlayst; s. your, &c. taste. B


nyn mleb; s. your, &c. befooled person, &c. See bleb. B


nyn mleïn; s. your, &c. year. B


nyn mleeantyn; s. your, &c. years. B


nyn mlennick; s. your, &c. belly fat. B


nyn mlest; s. your, &c. blast. B


nyn mlieaun; v. your, &c. milking. B


nyn mlieaunagh; s. your, &c. milking. B


nyn mlieauneyder; s. your, &c. milker. B


nyn mloberey; s. your, &c. babbler. B


nyn mlod; s. your, &c. blade. B


nyn mluggan; s. your, &c. ball. B


nyn moadagh; s. your, &c. cod. B


nyn moal or moalley; s. your, &c. wall. B


nyn moallaghyn; s. pl. your, &c. walls.


nyn moandey; s. your, &c. band. B


nyn moandyr; s. your, &c. nurse. B


nyn moandyrys; v. your, &c. nursing. B


nyn moannoo; s. your, &c. weaned pig. B


nyn moarder; s. your, &c. border. B


nyn moayl; s. your, &c. place. B


nyn moayrd; s. your, &c. table. B


nyn mochillaght; v. your, &c. herding. B


nyn mochil or mochilley; s. your &c. herd. B


nyn mock; s. your, &c. gelding. B


nyn muick; s. your geldings. B


nyn modjal; s. your, &c. cloud. B


nyn moggey; s. your, &c. joy. B


nyn moghlane (sic: stress); s. your, &c. bank. B


nyn moght; s. your, &c. poor person. B


nyn moghtynid; s. your, &c. poverty. B


nyn moirey; s. your, &c. disturbance, &c. B


nyn moireyder; s. your, &c. disturber, &c. B


nyn molg; s. your, &c. belly. B


nyn molgane; s. your, &c. calf of leg. B


nyn molgum; s. your, &c. mouthful. B


nyn mollag; s. your, &c. skull. B


nyn mollan; s. your, &c. rock-fish. B


nyn molvane; s. your, &c. dolthead. B


nyn molvanys; s. your, &c. doltishness. B


nyn mondiaght; s. your, &c. bondage. B


nyn monkan; s. your, &c. boor, &c. B


nyn mooa; s. your, &c. cow. B


nyn maa; s. your, &c. cows. B


nyn mooise; s. your, &c. thanks. B


nyn mooiys; s. your, &c. gratitude. B


nyn moorey; s. your, &c. beach; pl. 67. B


nyn mossan; s. your, &c. herb. B


ny beuyr; s. pl. the deaf; the pl. of bouyr.


nyn mouyrid; s. your, &c. deafness. B


nyn moyn; s. your, &c. heel. B


nyn moynnagh; s. your, &c. heelstrap. B


nyn mraag; s. your, &c. shoe. B


nyn mraain; s. your, &c. quern. B


nyn mraar; s. your, &c. brother. B


nyn mriwnys; s. your, &c. judgment. B


nyn mwinnican; s. your, &c. yolk. B


nyn muinn; v. your, &c. reaping. B


nyn mun; s. your, &c. See bun. B


nyn munney; s. your, &c. sheaf; pl. 68. B


nyn mussal; s. your, &c. handkerchief. B


nyn mwilleen; s. your, &c. loaf; pl. -yn. B


nyn muilley; s. your, &c. blow; pl. 67. B


nyn mwoailtçhyn; s. your, &c. folds; Jer. xxiii. 3: As nee’m fooilliagh my hioltane y haglym ass dy chooilley heer raad ta mee er n’eiyrt ad, as ver-ym lhiam ad reesht gys nyn mwoailtchyn hene; as bee ad messoil as nee ad bishaghey. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. B


nyn gaa; s. your, &c. opportunity. C


nyn gaabaig; s. your, &c. thick cake. C


nyn gaaee; s. your, &c. seeds. C


nyn gaag; s. your, &c. forelock. C


nyn gaaidge; s. your, &c. cage. C


nyn gaashey; s. your, &c. cheese. C


nyn gab; s. your, &c. jaw; pl. -byn. C


nyn gabbid; s. your, &c. stammering. C


nyn gaabane; s. your, &c. cabin, &c. C


nyn gabbyl; s. your, &c. horse. C


nyn gabdil; s. your, &c. chapter. C


nyn gadley; s. your, &c. sleep. C


nyn gadlag; s. your, &c. sleeper. C


nyn gadleyder; s. your, &c. sleeper. C


nyn gaddym; s. your, &c. glampus. C


nyn gadjer; s. your, &c. huckster. C


nyn gadjerys; s. your, &c. mongery. C


nyn gadjinys; s. your, &c.  commonness. C


nyn gaitnys; s. their, &c. common, or nap. C


nyn gaggey; s. your, &c. war. pl. 67. C


nyn gaggeyder; s. your, &c. warrior; pl. -yn. C


nyn gaghlaa; s. your, &c. change; pl. -ghyn. C


nyn gagliagh; s. your, &c. boundary; pl. 72. C


nyn gainle; s. your, &c. candle. C


nyn gainlere; s. your, &c. candlestick. C


nyn gair; s. your, &c. share, &c. C


nyn gairys; s. your, &c. right; pl. -syn. C


nyn Gaisht; s. your, &c. Easter; pl. -yn. C


nyn gallin; s. your, &c. body; pl. -yn. C


nyn gammid; s. your, &c. crookedness. C


nyn gamlaagys; s. your, &c. crookedness. C


nyn gammag; s. your, &c. crutch; pl. -yn. C


nyn gantey; v. your, &c. auctioning. C


nyn ganteyder; s. your, &c. bidder at an auction. C


nyn gappagh; s. your, &c. captive; pl. 71. C


nyn gappeeys; s. your, &c. captivity; pl. -yn. C


nyn gappan; s. your, &c. cup; pl. -yn. C


nyn gaptan; s. your, &c. captain; pl. -yn. C


nyn gaptanys; s. your, &c. captainship. C


nyn gar; s. your, &c. turn, job. &c. C


nyn garr; s. your, &c. twist or turn. C  


nyn garbyd; s. your, &c. bier; pl. -yn or 76.


nyn garchuillag;  s. your, &c. fly; pl. -yn. C.


nyn garmeish; s. your, &c. coarse sheet. C


nyn ganveish; s. your, &c. canvass; pl. -yn. C


nyn garn; s. your, &c. monumental pile. C


nyn garnane; s. your, &c. heap; pl. -yn. C


nyn garnoain; s. your, &c. beetle; pl. -yn. C


nyn garr; s. your, &c. tune.  


nyn garrage; s. your, &c. carrot. C


nyn garrane; s. your, &c. sandal; pl. -yn. K or C


nyn garrey; s. your, &c. friend. pl. 67. C


nyn garraghyn; s. pl. those who befriend you. C


nyn gaarjyn; s. your, &c. friends.  C


nyn gaardys; s. your, &c. genealogy; Ezra ii. 62: Hir ad shoh ayns lioar nyn gynneeyn son coontey nyn gaardys, agh cha row ad ry-gheddyn: er-y-fa shen, v'ad chyndait veih'n taggyrtys, myr neu-chooie son yn oik. These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. C


nyn gaarjys; s. your, &c. friendship. C


nyn garriads; s. your, &c. high-road labour; pl. -syn; something wearisome to carry or perform. C


nyn garroo; s. your, &c. carp. C


nyn garval; s. your, &c. carol; pl. -yn. C


nyn gaseyder; s. your, &c. one who twists; pl. -yn.


nyn gasag; s. your, &c. curl; pl. -yn. C


nyn gaslys; s. your, &c. likeness, or sign; pl. -syn.C


nyn go-chaslys; s. your, &c. likeness, analogy. C


nyn gass; s. your, &c. foot; pl. -yn. C


nyn gassan; s. your, &c. path; pl. -yn. C


nyn goshee; s. your, &c. travellers on foot. C


nyn Gatreeney; s. your, &c. Catharine. C


nyn gaulg; s. your, &c. awns, hards, &c. C


nyn gayr; s. your, &c. car or carriage. C


nyn gayrn; s. your, &c. trumpet. C


nyn geab; s. your, &c. clod. C


nyn geabbagh or gabbagh; s. your, &c. cloddy land. C


nyn jaghter; s. your, &c. messenger. Ch


nyn jaghteraght; s. your, &c. message. Ch


nyn jea; v. your &c., fleeing or retreating. Ch


nyn jebbal; v. your, &c. offering or bidding.


nyn gheer; s. your, &c. country; Josh. x. 42: As ooilley ny reeaghyn shoh as nyn gheer ren Joshua 'ghoaill mysh yn un traa; son dy ren y Chiarn Jee Israel caggey ayns lieh Israel. And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. This word must be an error. See jeer, as it ought to be.[36]


nyn jeer; s. your &c. country; pl. -aghyn. Ch


nyn jeerey; s. your, &c. drying. Ch


nyn jeereyder; s. your, &c. drier. Ch


nyn jeet; s. your &c. coming, arrival. Ch


nyn jengey; s. your, &c. tongue; pl. 67. Ch


nyn jeu; s. your, &c. side. Ch


nyn gheu (sic); s. your, &c. side. Ch


nyn ghiamble (sic); s. your, &c. temple, C[h]


nyn Jiarn; s. our, &c. Lord. Ch


nyn jibbyr; s. your, &c. well. Ch


nyn jing; s. your, &c. sore. Ch


nyn jingys; s. your, &c. sickness, illness. Ch


nyn jiollagh; s. your, &c. hearth. Ch


nyn jionney; v. your, &c. tightening, straitening; 2 Cor. vi<ii>. 12: Cha vel shiuish er nyn jionney ayninyn, agh ta shiuish chionnit ayns ny creeaghyn eu hene. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.


nyn jennid; s. your, &c. straitness, &c. Ch


nyn jymmey; s. your, &c. compassion. Ch


nyn jymmilt; s. your, &c. circumcision. Ch


nyn jymmyltagh [sic: sc. ny hymmyltagh; pl. nyn jymmyltee], s. a circumcised person; pl. 71 [change -agh to -ee]; Jer. ix. 26: Er Egypt, as Judah, as Edom, as cloan Ammon, as Moab, as ooilley ny t’ayns ny corneilyn sodjey-magh, ta cummal ’syn aasagh: son ta ooilley ny ashoonyn shoh nyn jymmyltee, as ta ooilley thie Israel nyn jymmyltee ayns cree. Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. Ch


nyn jymmiltey; v. your, &c. circumcising. Ch


nyn jymney; s. your, &c. will. See also jimney. Ch


nyn jimney; s. your, &c. will, pl. 67. Ch


nyn jymsagh; v. your, &c. gathering. Ch


nyn jyndaaghyn; s. your, &c. turns.


nyn jyrmid; s. your, &c. dryness. Ch


nyn glaasagh; s. your, &c. harp. C


nyn glagg; s. your, &c. clock or bell; pl. see gligg [deest, l. nyn gluig].


nyn glagh; s. your, &c. stone; pl. -yn. C


nyn glagheyder; s. your, &c. stoner. C


nyn gleaysh; s. your, &c. ear, lug; pl. -yn. C


nyn gleeau; s. your, &c. breast; Nah. ii. 7: As bee Huzzab er ny leeideil ayns cappeeys, ver ad lhieu seose ee, as nee ny moidynyn eck shooyl rhymbee cooagey myr calmaneyn, as caayney ayns nyn gleeau.  And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. C


nyn gleiy; s. your, &c. hedge. C


ny cleigh; s. pl. the hedges; ; Luke xiv. 23: As dooyrt y chiarn rish y charvaant, Gow magh gys ny raaidyn mooarey as ny cleigh, as guee orroo dy heet stiagh, dy vod my hie ve er ny lhieeney. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. C


ny cleiyee; s. pl. the hedges; Jer. xlix. 3: …yllee-jee, inneenyn Rabbah; cur-jee erriu aanrit-sack; jean-jee dobberan, as roie-jee noon as noal rish ny cleiyee. …cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges. C


nyn gleragh; s. your, &c. clerk. C


nyn glereeys; s. your, &c. clerkship. C


nyn gleuin; s. your, &c. daughter’s husband. [C]


nyn gleuinys; s. your, &c. affinity or relationship by marriage.


nyn gliaghtey; s. [your, &c.] custom, practice, habit; pl. 67. C


nyn gliwe; s. your, &c. glave or sword. C


nyn glo; v. s. your, &c. chasing. C


nyn glienney; a. d. of their, &c. children. C


nyn glooid; s. your, &c. clout. C


nyn glooie; s. your, &c. plumage, small feathers, fur. C


nyn glooisag; s. your, &c. bolster. C


nyn glou or glouw; s. their, &c. tongs; pl. -ghyn. C


nyn goadey; s. your, &c. protection. C


nyn goagyrey; s. your, &c. cook; pl. 67. C


ny choair; adv. nigh to, near. C


nyn goair; adv. near us, nigh us. C


nyn goamrey; s. your, &c. clothing, apparel, raiment. C


nyn goardail; s. your, &c. agreement; pl. -yn. C


nyn goau; s. your, &c. chaff. C


nyn goayl; s. your, &c. loss. C


nyn gorrillagh; s. your, &c. odds. C


nyn goe; s. your, &c. weeping, grieving. C


nyn goggyl; s. your, &c. cockle or tare<s>. C


nyn goghal; s. your, &c. core; pl. -yn. C


nyn gohdyr; s. your, &c. refuse of straw. C


nyn goirrey; s. your, &c. crucible or furnace. C


nyn golbey; s. your, &c. body, trunk, hull. C


nyn golbagh; s. your, &c. heifer. pl.  72.


nyn gollagh; s. your, &c. stallion; pl. 71.


nyn gollane; s. your, &c. gut or entrail, C


nyn goltar; s. your, &c. coulter. C


nyn gombaase; s. your, &c. compass. C


nyn gommeeys; s. your, &c. fellowship. C


nyn gonaant; s. your, &c. covenant or condition. C


nyn gondageys; s. your, &c. contrariness. C


nyn gonnaase; s. your, &c. disdain. C


nyn gonnysson; v. your, &c. gibing. C


nyn gonning; s. your, &c. rabbit. C


nyn gonvayrt; s. your, &c. carrion. C.


nyn goo; s. your, &c. greyhound. C


nyn goyin; s. your, &c. greyhounds. C


nyn gooag; s. your, &c. cuckoo; pl. -yn. C


nyn gooid; s. your, &c. goods. C


nyn gooieid; s. your, &c. fitness. C


nyn gooilleeneyder; s. your, &c. fulfiller, &c. C


nyn gooinaght or gooinaghtyn; s. your, &c. memory, or remembrance. C


nyn gooinsheanse; s. your, &c. conscience. C


nyn gooish; s. your, &c. cause; pl. -yn. C


nyn goolley or gooylley; s. your, &c. leaf or valve of a door. C


nyn goonid; s. your, &c. narrowness. C


nyn gooney; s. your, &c. help, aid, assistance. C


nyn goonlagh; s. your, &c. straw. C


nyn goonrey; s. your, &c. exchange, swop, &c.; pl. 67.


nyn goorse; s. your, &c. course. C


nyn gooyl; s. our, &c. back; adv. behind us.


ny chooyl; pre. behind, aback. C


nyn gooylloo; adv. behind your, &c. back. C


nyn goraa; s. your, &c. voice; pl. -ghyn.


nyn gorkey; s. your, &c. oats. C


nyn gorlaig; s. your, &c. coalrake. C


nyn gorp; s. your, &c. body; pl. see girp.


nyn girp; s. your, &c. bodies. [C]


nyn gorrag; s. your, &c. hand. See corrag.


nyn gosneyder; s. your, &c. gainer, &c. C


nyn gour; adv. provided for, towards you, your, their, or our, for <they> them, you, ye, or us, &c.


nyn gouyral; s. your, &c. recovery, cure. C


nyn gowrey; s. your, &c. mark, token, sign, signification. [C]


nyn goyrt; v. your, &c. giving. C


nyn graader; s. your, &c. shaker. C


nyn grackan; s. your, &c. skin. C


nyn graitnyn; s. your, &c. skins, felts. C


nyn graitnag; s. your, &c. bat. C


nyn gragh; s. your, &c. carnage, &c. C


nyn gragheyder; s. your, &c. spoiler, &c. C


nyn graidey; s. your, &c. mocking, scoffing, &c. C


nyn graidoilagh; s. your, &c. mocker, scoffer, &c. C


nyn graidoilys; s. your, &c. mockery, scoffery, &c. C


nyn graiu; s. your, &c. crow or lever. C


nyn graiuaig; s. your, &c. ruinous state. C


nyn grammag; s. your, &c. snail. C


nyn gramman; s. your, &c. lump. C


nyn grankal; v. your, &c. knocking. C


nyn grannag; s. your, &c. pulpit; pl. -yn. C


nyn graplag; s. your, &c. wrinkle or crumple. C


nyn graue; s. your, &c. bone.C


nyn graueeaght; s. your, &c. religion, piety, &c. C


nyn gray; s. your, &c. clay; pl. -ghyn. C


nyn grea; s. your, &c. creed. C


nyn greagh; s. your, &c. furrow. C


nyn greckeyder; s. your, &c. seller, vender. C


nyn gredjal; v. your, &c. believing. C


nyn gredjue; s. your, &c. faith, belief. C


nyn gredjuagh; s. your, &c. believer. C


nyn gree; s. your, &c. heart; pl. -ghyn or -aghyn. C


nyn greear; s. your, &c. sieve, or searce; pl. -yn. C


nyn greenid; s. your, &c. ripeness.


nyn greenaght; s. your, &c. wisdom. C


nyn Greest; s. our, &c. Christ; pl. -yn. C


nyn Greestee; s. your, &c. Christian; pl. -nyn. C


nyn Greesteeaght; s. your, &c. sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. C


nyn Greestiaght; s. your, &c. Christianity. C


nyn greg; s. your, &c. rock. C


nyn greggan; s. your, &c. rocky place. C


nyn greoghey; s. your, &c. hardening. C


nyn greoghys; s. your, &c. hardness or hardship. C


nyn greogheyder; s. your, &c. hardener; pl. -yn. C


nyn gretoor; s. your, &c. creature; pl. -yn. C


nyn gribbey; v. your, &c. contracting, shrinking. C


nyn griy; s. your, &c. gallows. C


nyn groyn; s. your, &c. nuts. C


nyn gron; s. your, &c. nuts. C


nyn groae; s. your, &c. eye of needle. C


nyn groag; s. your, &c. clutch. C


nyn groagane; s. your, &c. crook. C


nyn groaglagh; s. your, &c. clutch full. [C]


nyn groaghan; s. your, &c. gadfly. C


nyn groan; s. your, &c. mast. C


nyn grooin or gruin; s. pl. [your, &c.] masts. C


nyn gruin; s. your, &c. masts. C


nyn gronnag; s. your, &c. crosstree. C


nyn grobage; s. your, &c. boiled claw. C


nyn grockan; s. your, &c. crock. C


nyn grodane; s. your, &c. gurnet. C


nyn groe; s. your, &c. coop; pl. -ghyn. C


nyn groghey; v. your, &c. hanging. C


nyn grogheyder; s. your, &c. hanger. C


nyn groiaght; s. your, &c. incest. C


nyn groit; s. your, &c. croft. C


nyn gron; s. your, &c. reed. C


nyn gron; s. your, &c. scar, mark. C


nyn gronk; s. your, &c. hill or mount. C


nyn grink or groink; s. your, &c. hills or mounts. C


nyn grongan; s. your, &c. hillock; pl. -yn. C


nyn gronneeaght; s. your, &c. doleful lamentation; 2 Chron. xxxv. 25: As ren Jeremiah dobberan son Josiah, as ren ooilley ny arranee chammah deiney as mraane gimraa er Josiah ayns nyn gronneeaght trimshagh gys y traa t'ayn, as va shoh son oardagh ayns Israel: as cur-my-ner, t'ad scruit ayns lioar y dobberan. And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. C


nyn gronney; s. your, &c. portion, share, allotted share. C


nyn groint; [s.] your, &c. knots. C


nyn grontey; v. your, &c. knotting, bulbing. C


nyn ver-croo; s. our, &c., creator. F


nyn grooag; s. your, &c. grub, maggot. C


nyn groobee; s. your, &c. lame folk. C


nyn groobid; s. your, &c. lameness. C


nyn grosh; s. your, &c. cross. C


nyn grossey; v. your, &c. thwarting. C


nyn grossan; s. your, &c. coral. C


nyn grottag; s. your, &c. curlew; pl. -yn. C


nyn grou; s. your, &c. iron shoe. C


nyn grout; s. your, &c. trick, craft. C


nyn groutid; s. your, &c. craftiness. C


nyn grouw; s. your, &c. bunch or any thing growing on one stem or stalk; pl. -ghyn. C


nyn growal; v. your, &c. hovering. C


nyn gruill; s. your, &c. curve. C


nyn gruinnid; s. your, &c. compactness, as being a round body.


nyn gruinney; s. your, &c. earth, globe, sphere, orb, &c.; pl. 67.


nyn grooinney; s. your, &c. creation of earth, <a> globe, sphere, orb. See crooinney. C


nyn gruisht or gruishtyn; s. your, &c. pitcher. C


nyn gruittag; s. your, &c. crook back. C


nyn gruittid; s. your, &c. crookedness. C


nyn gryss; s. your, &c. girdle, belt, tape. C


nyn gubbeyr; s. your, &c. cooper. C


nyn gug; s. your, &c. pap; pl. -yn. C


nyn guill; s. your, &c. quill. C


nyn guillee; s. your, &c. back room. C


nyn guinnag; s. your, &c. snuff horn or box. C


nyn guirraghyn; s. your, &c. feasts, banquets. C


nyn guirr; v. your sowing.


nyn guishlin; s. your, &c. vein; pl. -yn. C


nyn gullee; s. your, &c. colours. C


nyn gullee; s. your, &c. tackle, apparatus or equipage. C


nyn gullyr; s. your, &c. colour. C


nyn gummal; s. your, &c. holding or dwelling.


nyn gummaltagh; s. your, [&c.] dweller or holder. C


nyn gummey; s. your, &c. form; pl. 67 [change -ey to -aghyn].


nyn gumrail; v. your, &c. hindering. C


nyn gumrailys; s. your, &c. hinderance. C


nyn gurlead; s. your, &c. coverlid. C


nyn gurrym; s. your, &c. duty. C


nyn gurmyn; s. your, &c. duties. C


nyn gurnaght; s. your, &c. wheat. C


nyn gurneein; s. your, &c. pet, huff, &c. C


nyn gurp; s. your, &c. haunch; pl. -yn.


nyn gurrag; s. your, &c. See currag. C


nyn gurragh; s. your, &c. bog, fen. C


nyn gurtan; s. your, &c. curtain; pl. -yn.


nyn gushag; s. your, &c. See cushag. C


nyn gusthey; s. your, &c. whipping. C


ny doail; s. pl. the blind. Isa. xxxv. 5: Eisht hee sooillyn ny doail er ny osley, as nee cleayshyn ny beuyr clashtyn dy byrragh. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.


ny heaynnee; a. d. of the precipice or hogh [? EDD howe 7: A hollow, depression; a hollow space; a hole,  abyss, depth]. E


ny hearishyn; s. the weather, the times. E


ny heashyn; s. the ages, the generations. E


ny heayin; s. the lambs. E


ny heayst; a. d. of the moon. E


nyn nidd (sic); s. pl. your, &c. hats. I


nyn nidd (sic); s. pl. your, &c. nests. I


ny heïn; s. the chickens, the young of fowls. E


ny hellan; a. d. of the island. E


ny hellanee; s. the islanders. E


nyn vaarkey; s. your, &c. bathing. F


nyn vaarkey; s. your, &c., sea. F


nyn vaasaag; <v>[s]. your, &c., beard. F


nyn vaill; s. your, &c. hire or wages. F


nyn vea; s. your, &c. quiet, &c. F


nyn veanish; s. your, &c. witness. F


nyn venish; s. their, &c., presence. F


nyn veaylley; s. your, &c. eave. F


nyn veayraght; s. your, &c. cold or coldness. F


nyn vedjag; s. your, &c. feather. F


nyn veeackle; s. your, &c. tooth. F


ny ’gooish; p. p. without him or it. [F]


nyn vegooish; p. p. without us; 1 Cor. iv. 8: Nish ta shiu jeant magh, nish ta shiu berchagh, ta shiu er reill myr reeaghyn nyn vegooish: as dy baillish Jee dy jinnagh shiu reill, dy voddagh shinyn reill myrgeddin mêriu. Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. F


nyn veiyr; s. your, &c., noise. F


nyn veme; s. your, &c., want. F


nyn vir; s. your, &c., ones or men. F


nyn ver-croo; s. our, &c., creator. F


     nyn ver-ynsee; s. our, &c., teacher, schoolmaster. F


nyn vleshen; s. your, &c. blanket cloth. F


nyn voays; s. your, &c. good or goodness. F


ny-sodjey; adv moreover, furthermore, any more, no more, no further.


nyn voiljyn; s. your, &c. faults. F


nyn volt; s. your, &c. hair; Ez. xliv. 20: Chamoo nee ad baarey nyn ghing, ny lhiggey da nyn volt gaase liauyr, nee ad ynrycan baarey nyn volt. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. F


nyn vort; s. your, &c. ability. F


ny ud; a. among, mixed. F


ny vud eu; among you; [1] Cor. xi. 30: Son yn oyr shoh ta ymmodee annoon as doghanagh ny vud eu, as ymmodee nyn gadley. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. F


ny-vud oc; adv. among them, amongst them.


cha nyrrys; <v.> not wonder. Y


ny halley; a. d. of the hall; Luke xxii. [55] As tra v’ad er voaddey aile ayns mean ny halley, as er hoie sheese cooidjagh, hoie Peddyr sheese ny mast’ oc. And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.


ny himlee; s. the humble. I


ny hinneen; s. a daughter; Luke xiii, 16: As nagh lhisagh y ven shoh ta ny hinneen da Abraham, ee ta satan er chiangley, cur-my-ner ny hoght bleeaney jeig shoh, ve er ny eaysley veih yn vondiaght shoh er laa yn doonaght? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? I


ny yallooder; s. an idolater. J


nym; See nee’m.


ny-neesht; a. the two, the both [sc. nyn nyees; cf. nyn droor].


ny yeï; p. p. after him, behind him.


ny-jeï; p. p. abaft or behind them, after them or us.


ny-yeih; adv. nevertheless, notwithstanding, howbeit.


nyn yioïn or yioyn; s. their, &c. knowing or knowledge; Isa. lvii. 9: Hie oo gys y ree lesh dty ooillyn millish as lesh ymmodee dty spiceyn costal, as hug oo dty haghteryn foddey ’sy yioyn, as ren oo ginjillaghey oo hene dy jarroo gys joan ny hooirey. And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell [the citation illustrates ’sy yioyn ‘in the distance,’ which does not appear to involve the same word as yioïn ‘knowledge’]; their, &c. purpose; Acts xxvii. 13: As feaysley lesh geay meeley jiass sheiltyn dy row oc nish nyn yioïn, hiauill ad ry lhiattee Crete. And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.


ny yoarree; s. a stranger. J


[ny] yummalagh; s. a waster, a squanderer, &c.; pl. 71. J


[ny] yummaltagh; s. a waster, a squanderer, &c.; pl. 71. J


nyn gaart; s. your, &c. quart. K


nyn gail; s. your, &c. cole or cabbage. K


nyn gairdee; s. your, &c. smithy; pl. -yn. K


nyn galkey; s. our, &c. calking.


nyn gart; s. your, &c. cart;; pl. -yn. K or C


nyn gay; s. your, &c. mist. K


nyn gayt; s. your, &c. cat. K


nyn geiyt; s. your, &c. cats. K


nyn gease; s. your, &c. buttock. The pl. is in 2 Sam. x. 4: Shen-y-fa ghow Hanun sharvaantyn Ghavid, as ren eh baarey yn derrey lieh jeh ny faasaagyn oc, as yiare eh jeu nyn goamraghyn ’sy vean, kiart rish nyn geasyn, as lhig eh’n raad daue. Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. K


nyn geayn; s. your, &c. ocean or sea. K


nyn gaayney; s. your, &c. braying; <Job xxx. 7>[see above].


nyn geayney; s. your, &c. crying, &c. K


keayrt ny ghaa; adv. many a time.


nyn geead; s. your, &c. hundred; pl. -yn. K


nyn geadoo; a. our, &c. hundredth. K


nyn geeagh; s. your, &c. breast. K


nyn geeaght; s. their, &c. plough. K


nyn geeak; s. your, &c. cake. K


nyn geeayl; s. their, &c. sense or wit. K


nyn geiley; a. d. of your, &c. sense or wit. Ec kione nyn geiley (at their wits end). K
Prov. “Kione mooar er y veggan cheilley, as kione beg gyn veg edyr. Towse cheilley rish.” [A big head on the little (of wits), and a little head with none at all. Measure sense with it.]


nyn geeil; s. your, &c. jaw; pl. -yn. K


nyn geeill or geeihll; s. your, &c. church. K


nyn gialteenyn; s. your, &c. churches. K


nyn geesh; s. your, &c. tax or tribute. K


nyn gegeeish; s. your, &c. fortnight. K


nyn geiltyn; v. your, &c. concealing, &c. K


nyn geint; s. your, &c. kind, sort. K


nyn geird; s. your, &c. trade. K


nyn gelk; s. your, &c. chalk. K


nyn gellagh; s. your, &c. cock; pl. 71. K


nyn gemmyrk; s. your, &c. refuge. K


nyn genjallys; s. your, &c. kindness. K


nyn genip; s. your, &c. hemp. K


nyn geoï-id; s. your, &c. wildness, &c. K


nyn gere; s. your, &c. comb. K


nyn gerragh or gerraghey; s. your, &c. punishment.


nyn gesmad; s. your, &c. step; pl. -yn. K


nyn gessey; s. your, &c. cast off piece of land. K


nyn gey; s. your, &c. cream. K


ny geyrragh; a. d. of sheep; John x. 1: Eshyn nagh vel goll stiagh er y dorrys ayns bwoaillee ny geyrragh, agh ta drappal seose er aght ennagh elley, t’eh shen ny vaarliagh as ny roosteyr. He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. K


nyn gialgeyrys (sic: stress); s. your, &c. subtleness, craftiness.


nyn giannoort; s. our, &c. governor. K


nyn gairail; s. your, &c. care; pl. -yn. C


nyn giare; s. your, &c. four. K


nyn giarroo; a. your, &c. fourth. K


nyn giark; s. your, &c. hen; pl. -yn. K


nyn garkyl; s. your, &c. hoop; pl. -yn, or 76. K


nyn giartagh; s. your, &c. char or job. K


nyn giarteyder; s. your, &c. adjuster, &c. K


nyn giaull; s. your, &c. clamour, noise, or din. K


nyn giaulleeaght; s. your music, &c. K


nyn gied; s. your, &c. liberty, or permission. K


nyn Ghingeesh (sic); s. your, &c. Pentecost or Whitsuntide. K


nyn gione; s. your, &c. head. K


nyn ghing; s. your, &c. heads. K [sc. ging]


ny-chione; adv. by the hand; Jud. xvi. 26: As dooyrt Samson rish y yuilley va ny-chione, Lhig dou loaghtey ny pillaryn ta cummal seose y thie, dy voddym goaill my aash. And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them; literally, a-head of,


ny-chione; adv. mingled among; Num. xv<i>. 6 and 9: Ny son rea, nee oo kiarail son oural-arran, yn wheiggoo ayrn jeh ephah dy flooyr mestit lesh yn trass ayrn jeh hin dy ooil ny-chione. Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
Eisht ver eh lesh marish y dow, oural-arran jeh three omeryn dy flooyr, lesh lieh hin dy ooil ny-chione. Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil
.


nyn gionneyder; s. your, &c. purchaser.


nyn gishan; s. your, &c. peck, pl. -yn. K


nyn giuney; s. your, &c. calm; pl. 67. K


nyn goinney; s. your, &c. heath, ling, &c. K


nyn gurn; s. your, &c. can. <C>[K]


ny bare; better.


nyn; pro. our, their, your; ours, theirs, yours, and sometimes them, these, those, we, &c. or where it is placed in Luke, xiii. 2: Vel shiuish sheiltyn dy row ny Galileanee shoh nyn beccee erskyn ooilley ny Galileanee, er-y-fa dy duillee ad lheid y baase? Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?, and in Acts ii. 32: Shoh yn Yeesey cheddin ta Jee er hroggal seose, myr ta shinyn ooilley nyn veanishyn. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses, and such like places the last n must be redundant.[41] This word causes great changes in the initials of primary words. See Remark 118.


ny hoaie; a. d. of the grave; Psl. lxxxvi. 13: …as t’ou er livrey m’annym veih diunid ny hoaie. …and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. O


ny hoaiaghyn; s. the graves; Luke viii. 27: As tra v’eh er n’gholl er thalloo, haink ny whail ass yn ard-valley, dooinney dy row va ry-foddey seaghnit lesh drogh-spyrrydyn, as cha row eh ceau eaddagh, chamoo duirree eh ayns thie erbee, agh mastey ny hoaiaghyn. And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs. O


ny hoie; s. of the night, the night. O


ny huilk; s. the evils. U


ny hoohyn; s. the eggs. Prov. “Lhig dy chooilley ushag guirr e hoohyn hene.” [Let every bird hatch its own eggs.] O


ny hooigyn; s. the pits. O


ny hooigey; a. d. of the pit<s>. O


ny hooirrey; a. d. of the earth or mould. O


nyn baays; s. your, &c., thirst; Hag. i. 6: ta shiu giu, agh cha vel shiu er chuir nyn baays. …ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink. P


nyn baag; s. your &c., kiss; pl. -yn. P


nyn baart; s. your, &c., part.


nyn babyr; s. your, &c., paper; pl. -yn. P


nyn badjer; s. your, &c. prayer; pl. -yn. P


nyn baitçhey; s. our, &c., child; pl. 69. P


nyn balçhey; s. your, &c., plenty; pl. 69 (sic) [change -ey to -yn]. P


nyn banys; s. your, &c., penance; pl. -syn. P


nyn bardoon; s. your, &c. pardon.


nyn bargys; s. your, &c., paradise. P


nyn baarteays; s. your, &c. partner. P


nyn beccah; s. your, &c. sin.


nyn beccagh; s. m. your, &c. sinner. P


nyn bersoon; s. your, &c. person. P


nyn vadeyr; s. your, &c. prophet; pl. -yn; themselves, prophets; Acts xv. 32: As myr va Judas as Silas nyn vadeyryn ad-hene, choyrlee ad ny braaraghyn lesh ymmodee goan, as hickyree ad [ad ayns nyn gredjue]. And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them. Ph


nyn bian; s. your, &c. pain. P


nyn bibbin; s. your, &c. puffin. P


nyn bibbyr; s. your, &c. pepper. P


nyn bick; s. your, &c. pick-axe. P


nyn bick; s. your, &c. pitch. P


nyn bing; s. your, &c. penny. P


nyn bishyr; s. your, &c. pease. P


nyn biyr; s. your, &c. pair. P


nyn blaase; s. our, &c. palace. P


nyn blaiynt; s. your, &c. complaint. P


nyn boagey; s. your, &c., bag; pl. 67. P


nyn boanrey; s. your, &c. beans. P


nyn bobble; your, &c. people, community. P


nyn boddash; s. your, &c. pottage; pl. -yn. P


nyn bohnnar; s. your, &c. boy or girl; pl. -yn. P


nyn boht; s. your, &c. pot. P


nyn boinsheil; v. your, &c. appointing. P


nyn bollan; s. your, &c. saddle cloth. P


nyn bolt; s. your, &c. knock or thump.


nyn booar; s. our, &c. power; pl. -aghyn. P


nyn boodyr; s. your, &c. powder; pl. -yn. P


nyn boosey; your, &c. pl. boosaghyn, marriages. P


nyn bossan; s. your, &c. parcel. P


nyn breaçheil; v. your, &c. preaching. P


nyn breaçhoor; s. your, &c. preacher; pl. -yn. P


nyn brendeys (sic: stress); your, &c. apprentice; pl. -syn. P


nyn browal; s. your, &c. proof or proving; pl. -yn. P


nyn browaltagh; s. your, &c. deponent or deposer; pl. 71. P


nyn brysoon; s. your, &c. prison.


nyn brysoonagh; s. your, &c. prisoner; pl. 71. P


nyn buddase; s. your, &c. potato; pl. -yn. P


nyn bundail (sic: stress); s. our, &c. pinfold; pl. -yn. P


nyn buint; s. your, &c. pounds.


nyn burt; s. your, &c. port, harbour. P


nyn buirht; your, &c. ports, &c. P


nyn buiss; s. your, &c. cheek. P


nyn guail; v. to meet us; Gen. xxiv. 6[5]: Quoi yn dooinney shoh ta ayns y vagher shooyl nyn guail? What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? Q


nyn gwaill; v. to meet us. See also guail. Psalm cxlv. 5, Manks metre:
Yn Chiarn t’eh dooie as myghinagh,
Arryltagh dy hauail,
E chorree shooyl lesh kesmad moal
E vyghin cheet nyn gwaill.

[The Lord is kind and merciful,
Willing to save,
His wrath walks with a tardy step
His mercy comes to meet us. MWW]
Q


nyn guaaltagh; s. your, &c. meeter. Q


nyn guaiyl; s. your, &c. court. Q


nyn gueeyl; s. your, &c. wheel. Q


nyn guiggal; s. your, &c. distaff; pl. -yn. Q


nyn goif; s. your, &c. woman’s cap; pl. -yn. Q


nyn guoif; s. your, &c. woman’s cap. Q


nyn daggyrt; s. your, &c. parson, priest, or minister. S


nyn daggyrtys (sic); s. your, &c. ministry or priesthood. S


nyn daynt; s. your, &c. covetousness. S


ny hessenagh; s. a sexton or sergeant. S


nyn gheh (sic: see nyn jeh); s. your, &c. hide or pate. S


nyn jeh; s. your, &c. hide. Sh


ny henn ghooinney; s. an old man. S


nyn jesheraght; s. your, &c. team to plough. Sh


ny-sheyn; adv. presently, by and by.


ny hiaulteyr; s. a sailor. S


ny hideyr (sic: stress); s. an archer; pl. -yn. S


nyn glat; s. your, &c. rod. S


nyn doalt; s. your, &c. barn; pl. -yn. S


nyn doilshey; s. your, &c. light, sight. S


nyn dorçh (sic); s. your, &c. sort, kind, &c. S


nyn draid; s. our, &c. street. S


ny hushtallagh; s. an evangelist. S


nyn daaghey; v. your, &c. frequenting; Jud. v. 6: Ayns laghyn Shamgar mac Anath, ayns laghyn Jael, cha row ny raaidyn-mooarey er nyn daaghey, as ghow ny troailtee raaidyn follit. In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.


ny haart (sic); s. a defeat, rout, or overthrow. T


ny haaue; s. idle. Prov. “Cha vow laue ny haaue veg.” [An idle hand will receive nothing.] T


nyn daaue; v. your, &c. being idle, out of employ. T


nyn daggloo; s. your, &c. talk or conversation. T


nyn daghys; s. your, &c. itch. T


nyn daitnys; s. your, &c. delight or pleasure.


nyn dallagh; v. your, &c. murmuring, grumbling. T


nyn dannys; your, &c. tenantry or tenants.


nyn dappey; your, &c. temperature or temper. T


nyn dashtaghyn; s. pl. your &c. treasures. T


nyn dastey; s. your, &c. notice, heed, &c. T


nyn deayst; s. your, &c. dough. T


nyn deigh; s. your, &c. hatchet; pl. -yn. T


nyn daleair; s. your, &c. tailor. T


nyn dhalloo; s. your, &c. land, earth, terra. T


nyn dammag; s. your, &c. thicket or bush. T


nyn dhie; s. your, &c. house, home; pl. -yn. T


nyn dholtan; s. your, &c. house in ruins, T


ny hooilley; s. a flood; Gen. ix. 15: As cooin-yms er my chonaant, ta eddyr mish as shiuish, as dy chooilley chretoor bio, jeh dy chooilley eill; as cha jig ny ushtaghyn arragh, dy ve ny hooilley dy stroie dy chooilley eill. And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. T


ny horran; s. a dunghill; Ezra vi. 11: Quoi-erbee hed noi’n order shoh, lhig da fuygh ve raipit neose jeh e hie, as soit seose: lhig da-hene ve croghit er, as e hie ve jeant ny horran son shoh. Whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. T


nyn dort; s. your, &c. thoughtfulness, &c. T


nyn doyn; s. your, &c. anus or bottom. T


nyn droor; a. these three; Gen. ix. 19: Ad shoh nyn droor mec Noah: as lioroosyn va’n slane seihll jeant magh lesh cummaltee. These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. Num. xii. 4: As loayr y Chiarn dy siyragh rish Moses, as rish Aaron, as rish Miriam, Tar-jee magh nyn droor gys y chabbane agglish. As haink ad nyn droor magh. And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. T


nyn dummid; s. your, &c. bulk, &c. T


nyn doghyr; s. your, &c. dowry or marriage portion. T


nyn doiggal; s. your, &c. understanding. T


nyn doilçhinys; s. your, &c. deservings, merits or deserts. T


nyn door; s, your, &c. tower; pl. -yn. T


nyn dorcan; s. your, &c. fumes. T


nyn dorçhagh; s. your, &c. torment; pl. -yn.


nyn doshiaght; [s]. our, &c. beginning, &c.


ny host; s. silent; Prov. “Ta chengey ny host ny share na olk y ghra.” [A silent tongue is better than evil speaking.] T


nyn dhost; adv. we silent; as, bee mayd nyn dhost (we shall be silent).


nyn dhuill; s. pl. your, &c. holes. T


nyn dowse; s. your, &c. measure. T


nyn dowshan; s. your, &c. measurement. T


nyn doyrt-mow; s. their, &c. destruction. T


nyn draa; s. our, &c. time. T


nyn draagh; s. your, &c. hay. T


ny haartys (sic); s. a desolation. T


nyn draartys; s. your, &c. overthrow (sic: confusion with haart). T


nyn draastey; s. your, &c. squeezing. T


nyn draaue; v. your, &c. ploughing. T


nyn draie; s. their, &c. shore. T


nyn dranlaase; s. your, &c. tyranny, &c. T


nyn dranlaasagh; your, &c. tyrant, oppressor, &c.; pl. 71. T


ny hreanagh; s. a valiant man; pl. 71. T


nyn dreigeilagh; s. your, &c. forsaker, deserter, &c. T


nyn dreisht; s. your &c., trust, hope, confidence, &c. T


nyn dreishteilagh; s. m. your, &c. trustee, &c.; pl. 71. T


nyn drimshey; s. your, &c. sorrow, grief, &c. T


nyn droailt; s. their, &c. travelling or journey, your, &c. labour in child birth. T


ny hroailtagh; s. a traveller; pl. 71. T


nyn droailtys; s. your, &c. pilgrimage, &c. T


nyn droar or droayr; s. your, &c. crop. T


nyn droiddey; s. your, &c. scolding; pl. 67. T


nyn drimmid; s. your, &c. weight or importance. T


ny hrooid; p. p. through him, throughout; -syn, id. em. T


ny-hrooid; p. p. through him; -syn, id. em.


nyn drusyn; s. their, &c. trousers. T


nyn droshid; s. your, &c. strength. T


nyn drostey; s. our, &c. fasting. T


nyn drouse; s. their, &c. rubbish. T


nyn drustyr; s. your, &c. dirt. T


nyn duarystal; s. your, &c. shape, resemblance, or picture. T


nyn dushtey; s. your, &c. knowledge. T


ny hushtey; s. of water. U


nyn neeilley; <v>[s]. their &c. eating Pro. i. 31. Shen-y-fa nee ad gee jeh mess y raad oc hene, as bee nyn neeilley oc jeh nyn groutyn hene. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. E


ny hymmydyn; s. the uses. Y


aaitn; v. gorse, cover with whins; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -ey, 82; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha n’aaitn* or naaitnee; v. not gorse; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. A


aart-ny-paart; lot nor part.


accan; s. m. moan, lamentation or sorrow expressed by a mournful tone of voice; pl. -yn.


agglaghin; s. m. a fearful person; pl. -yn.


leigh ny hagglish; s. f. canon law.


aghin; s. f. a petition, a supplication, an entreaty; pl. -yn.


my saillin; p. if we please; -yn, id. em.


baillhienyn; we, &c.; id. em.


anfirrinnys; s. m. untruth; pl. -yn.


gannooinys; v. shall or will weaken or grow weak. A    


annym; s. m. soul; Heb. Anaph.


e hannym; s. her soul. A


anmeenyn; s. pl. or anmeeyn, souls.


noid-ny-hanmey; s. m. the enemy of souls.


ard-jaghin; s. m. an Archdeacon; pl. -yn.


ard-vyghin; s. m. great mercy; pl. -yn.


arganys; s. disputation, contention.


arn; s. f. sloe; pl. -yn. See drineyn.
drine arn
, (the sloe thorn).


arpin; s. m. an apron; pl. -yn. I have written this word as it is spoken.


arpin; s. m. the herb orpine; pl. -yn.


arran; s. m. bread; pl. -yn.


ashoon; s. f. a nation; pl. -yn.


ass-dooinyn; adv. p. out of us; em.


ass-ynnyd; adv. out of place, out of joint.


astan; s. f. a conger, an eel; pl. -yn.


coar-ny-hastan; s. f. a crane; pl. -yn.


awin; s. f. a river; pl. -yn.


cabbag-ny-hawin; s. f. colt’s-foot, cough-wort, hart’s-hoof.


ayn-in; p. p. in us; -yn, id. em.


ayrn; s. m. part, share, portion; pl. -yn.


e hayrn; s. her share; pl. -yn. A


baaihn; s. m. a cow’s or beast’s heam [OED: The amnion of an animal (= caul); the secundine]; pl. -yn.


bangan; s. m. a branch; pl. -yn.


bann* or bannee; v. bless; -agh, 77; -aghey, 82; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


vann or vannee; v. did bless; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. B


bantan; s. m. a bantling [OED: A young or small child, a brat]; pl. -yn.


bardoonys; s. m. tragical poetry.


e vardoonys; s. his tragical singing. B


vargan; v. did or didst bargain; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. B


bayr or beyr; s. m. a way, avenue, lane; pl. -nyn or -yn.


bayrn; s. m. a cap; pl. -yn.


er-ny-ve; v. hath or having, &c. been.


t’ain; pro. v. we have; -yn, id. em.


torrin; p. p. on us; -yn, id. em.


ynnyd-veaghee; s. f. a dwelling place.


  beggan-ny-booise; little thanks.


er ny vhlieh; v. hath, &c., been ground; Isaiah xxviii. 28: Ta arroo-arran er ny vhlieh, nagh bee eh dy kinjagh bwoalley, ny brishey eh lesh queeyll e chart, ny broo eh lesh e chabbil. Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. B


beinn; s. m. peak, pinnacle, summit; pl. -yn.


çhengey-ny-mraane; See cron-craaee. [‘aspen tree’]


benn; v. touch; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -it, 85; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88. Job. ii. 5: Agh sheeyn magh dty laue nish, as benn rish y chraue as yn eill echey, as nee eh d’oltooaney gys dty eddin. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.


venn; v. did touch or touched; -agh; -in -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. B


berreen; s. f. a cake, a clapt cake [OED clap 9b: To slap or strike with a flat surface, so as to smooth or flatten; to pat]; pl. -yn.


berreman; s. m. a neck collar; pl. -yn. This word no doubt ought to be spelled berremwing or berrequing.


bhurkin; s. m. a bodkin; pl. -yn.


lus ny binjey; s. f. dropwort.


lus ny binjey lheeanagh; s. f. meadow trefoil.


lus ny binjey mooar; s. f. crudwort.


blean; s. f. flank, groin; Lev. iii. 15; pl. -yn. As yn daa aarey, as yn eeh t’orroo, shen ny ta liorish ny bleanyn, as y skairt erskyn yn aane, marish ny aaraghyn, shen nee eh y ghoaill ersooyl. And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.


bleayn; s. f. an emerod [i.e. haemorrhoid], a pile; pl. -yn.


bleb; s. m. a befooled person, a cully, a person acting foolishly; pl. -eeyn, -inyn [see blebin], or -yn.


blebinys; s. m. foolery, folly.


blieaun; v. milk, milking; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


vlieaun; v. did milk or milked; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. B


blockan; s. m. a pollock fish; pl. -yn.


bluckan or bluggan; s. m. a ball; pl. -yn.


boiranys; s. m. balderdash, brawl, bother, troublesomeness, tumult, the effects of being wrong in the head.


e woiranys; s. 42. his trouble, harassing. B


bolgan; s. m. a bubble, a blister; pl. -yn.


bollan; s. f. the fish old wife, or rock fish; pl. -yn.


bonkan; s. m. a boor, a bumpkin, a rustic, a mountaineer, a clown; pl. -yn.


bonkanys; s.


e vonkanys; s. his boorishness, &c. B


Bonnee or Bonny; s. f. a general name for an old mare.


beggan-ny-booise; little thanks.


bossan; s. m. wort, weed, an herb; pl. -yn.


bouin; s. f. bodice, stays, the waist; pl. -yn.


bouyran; s. m. a person a little deaf; pl. -yn.


bouyranys; s.


e vouyranys (sic: stress); s. his little deafness. B


boyn; s. f. a heel; pl. -yn.


braain; s. m. a handmill, a quern; pl. -yn.


brackan; s. m. a brindle [? =  OED: A brindled dog, where brindled is ‘Streaked, tabby, marked with streaks’ (Johnson)]; pl. -yn.


brackan; s. m. a small piece ploughed in a field; pl. -yn. [cf. injeig]


braddan; s. m. a salmon; pl. -yn.


brasn* or brasnee; v. provoke, insult, excite to anger; -agh, 77; -aghey, 82; -ee, 80; -ey, (-ey and -aghey are of the same meaning); -in, 83; -ins, 84; -it, 85; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


vrasn or vrasnee; v. did provoke, stimulate, or affront, did exasperate; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. B


breban; s. m. a little kick; it is used for any filth or dirt adhering to persons or things by being kicked, or rubbed against; pl. -yn.


ynnyd y vreck; s. f. the marks of the small pox.


brein; s. f. womb, matrice or matrix; pl. -yn. Had this word been written bwrein, it would have shown more analogy to its relatives bwoirryn, bwoirrynagh, &c.; but as a learned author observes of the orthography and pronunciation of words, fixed beyond the reach of etymology to alter, have, like land, limitations to their rights. When orthography or pronunciation has obtained a long standing, though by false title, it is perhaps better to leave it in quiet possession, than to disturb the language by an ancient though better claim.


breinn; v. [stink]; -agh, 77; -aghey, 82; -ee, 80; -ys, 88.


brelleein; s. f. a sheet; pl. -yn.


breneen; s. f. an atom, a mote; pl. -yn.


briw; s. m. a judge, a deemster; pl. -nyn. Has this word any analogy to the Irish brehon? Prov. “Eshyn nagh gow rish briw erbee t’eh deyrey eh hene.” [He who acknowledges no judge condemns himself.]


briwnys; s. f. judgment; pl. -yn or -syn.


e vriwnyssyn; s. his judgments. B


briwnys; v. judge; as, Easht lesh dagh cleaysh, eisht jean briwnys. [Listen with each ear, then make judgment.]; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -it, 85; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


er vriwnys; v. hath, &c., judged. B


briwnysit; pt.


brooinyn; s. pl. brinks, the pl. of broogh.


e vroonyn; s. his brinks or brows. B


bruan; s. m. a rash, cutaneous disorder; pl. -yn.


brynnagh or brynnyragh; a. flattering, smooth or false talk; Isa. xxx. 10: Ny jean-jee phadeyrys dooin reddyn cairagh; loayr-jee rooin goan brynnagh, jean-jee phadeyrys foalsey. Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits.


brynnyragh; s.


brynnyree; s. pl. flatterers, hypocritical mockers; Psl. xxxv. 16: Marish ny brynnyree va grindeyryn connyssagh: ren snaggeraght orrym lesh nyn veeacklyn. With the flatterers were busy mockers: who gnashed upon me with their teeth.


bugganys; s. m. frightfulness, dreariness.


bwinnican; s. m. the yolk of an egg; pl. -yn.


buinn; v. reap, shear; -agh, 77; -ee, 80, -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


vuinn; v. did reap or reaped, did shear corn, pull flax, hemp, ling; cut turf, &c.; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. B


bun; s. m. the but end, the bottom end, the best part, the meaning; as, cur bun dou er (give me the meaning of it), beneath; pl. -yn; Ex. xxxii. 19: As haink eh gy-kione, myr v’eh tayrn er-gerrey gys y champ, dy chronnee eh yn lheiy as y daunsin: as ghreesee corree Voses, as hilg eh ny buird ass e laueyn, as vrish eh ad ec bun y clieau. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.


bun-ny-geayee; s. the wind’s eye, where the wind blows from.


bunnys; adv. almost, mostly, nearly altogether. Perhaps from boynnys (at the heels of).


dty vunnys; s. thy almost. B


burkan; s. m. a kimlin [EDD kemlin: A small wooden vessel, used for dressing butter in]; pl. -yn.


bwhon; s. m. a stump; pl. -yn.


bwoirrynid or bwoirrynys; s. f. feminality, effeminacy, effemination.


bytermyn; s. m. the linnet; pl. -yn.


cabbag-ny-hawin; s. f. colt’s-foot, cough-wort, hart’s-hoof.


re-hollys vooar ny gabbyl; s. f. the moonlight-that immediately follows the former [sc. re-hollys vooar yn ouyr].


caboon; s. m. a capon, a gelded cock; pl. -yn.


cadjinys; s. m. common custom, vulgarity.


caitnys; s.


yn chaitnys; s. the common, the nap [?]. C


caign; v. chew, gnaw; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83, -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha gaign; v. not chew or gnaw; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


chaign; v. did chew or gnaw; -agh; -ey; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys. C


caillin; s. f. a woman; pl. -yn.


Laa’l Moirrey ny Gianle; s. m. Candlemas-day, kept on the second of February.


cappan; s. m. a cup; pl. -yn.


yn chappan; s. the cup; pl. -yn. C


captan; s. m. a captain; pl. -yn.


captanys; s.


carn or carnane; s. m. a heap or knob; a heap or pile erected in memory of a dead person, or of some memorable event; pl. -yn; (barrows).


er nyn gasherickey; v. hath, &c. been sanctified; Acts xxvi. 18: ...dy vod ad leih peccaghyn y gheddyn, as eiraght nyn mast' ocsyn t'er nyn gasherickey liorish y credjue ta aynym's. ...that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.


er nyn gosh; on your, &c. foot or feet. C


cassan; s. m. a path, a track; pl. -yn.


cassan-ny-greiney; s. m. the zodiac.


er nyn gastey; v. hath been quelled, conquered, &c. C


cayrn; v. blow or sound the trumpet; -agh, 77; -al, 79; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


chayrn; v. did blow the trumpet; -agh; -al; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


çheinjean; s. m. 5. a bonfire; pl. -yn.


çhengey-ny-mraane; See cron-craaee [‘aspen tree’].


e hiarn; s. his lord; pl. -yn. Ch


çhiarnys; s. m. lordship, dominion; Mat. xx. 25: Agh deïe Yeesey orroo huggey, as dooyrt eh, Ta fys eu dy vel princeyn ny Hashoonee gymmyrkey chiarnys harrystoo, as ta ny ard-gheiney gymmyrkey reill orroo. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.


e hiarnys; s. his lordship; pl. -syn. Ch


çhionn; v. 5. tighten, fasten, or straiten; -agh, 77; -ey, 82; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha jion or jionn*; v. not tighten; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. Ch


hionn; v. did tighten, straiten, or fasten; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. Ch


çhymn* or çhymnee; v. 5. will or bequeath, commend or devise; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -it, 85; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


hymn; v. did will or bequeath, &c.; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. Ch


chlann; v. did populate or thicken; -agh; -aghey; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


cluin or cluinn*; v. hear; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -it, 85; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


clin; v. hear. See also cluin, which I reckon the best Manks; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ym, 86; -ys, 88..


cha glin or gluin; v. not hear; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. Cha glin eh shen nagh n’ynney lesh. [He will not hear that which he doesn’t like.]


cha gluin; v. not hear; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94.


chluin or chluinn oo; v. didst thou hear; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -ys, 94. C


chlin or chluin; v. did hear; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


clean; s. m. cradle or creel; pl. -yn.


cleayn or cleaynee; v. entice, allure, seduce, delude, inveigle; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -it, 85; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha gleayn; v. not entice, seduce, or inveigle; -agh; -in; -ins-ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


chleayn; v. did allure, incline, or entice; -agh; -ee; -ey; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94; C


er ny gleayney (sic); v. hath, &c. been enticed, &c. C


cleragh-ny-lioaryn; s. m. the Clerk of the Rolls.


cleuinys; s. f. affinity, relationship by marriage.


e chleuinys; s. his affinity by marriage. C


cliegeen; s. f. a jewel; Pro. xi. 2[2]: Myr cliegeen dy airh ayns stroin muickey, myr shen ta ben aalin, fegooish ymmyrkey mie. As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion; a loop or ring; pl. -yn. The g in this word ought to be a j, according to Dr. Kelly’s Manks grammar and the latter part of remark 12, as I never heard the hard sound given to the g in this word in conversation. Etymology perhaps from cleaysh (an ear) and jesheen (an ornament).


cliwe; s. f. a sword; pl. -nyn.


cloan-ny-mollaght; s. pl. cursed children.


co-chruin* or co-chruinee; v. congregate, assemble in a multitude, besiege; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


coar-ny-hastan; s. f. a crane; pl. -yn.


connaasagh (sic: stress) or connysson; v. taunting, scoffing, disdainfully sneering, or teasing.


chonnaasey or chonnysson; v. sneering, gibing, teasing in a disdainful manner. C


connysagh; [a.] See connaasagh.


connagh-ny-ghiark (sc. giark); s. f. the herb henbane.


cooilleen; v. fulfil, perform, reward, avenge; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha gooilleen; v. not fulfil or perform; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. C


chooilleen; v. did fulfil or fulfilled, perform, reward, compensate, complete, finish; -agh; -ee; -ey; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


er ny gooilleeney (sic); v. hath, &c. been fulfilled, performed, or compensated. C


cooin or cooinee; v. remember, recollect; -agh, 77; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -it, 85; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha gooin; v. not remember; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. C


chooin* or chooinee; v. did remember, or recollect; -agh; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


coon; v. narrow; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


coon; v. help, aid, assist; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha goon; v. not help; -agh; -in; -ins; -yms, 94. C


choon; v. [did] help, aid, assist; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym -yms; -ys, 94. C


corlan; s. f. an earth nut or pig nut; pl. -yn.


curlan; s. f. a pig nut or earth nut; pl. -yn.


corran; s. m. a sickle; pl. -yn. Prov. “Cha dooar rieau drogh veaynee corran mie.” [A bad reaper never got a good sickle.]


cosn*; cosne, or cossyn, v. gain, earn, win, escape, &c.; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -ey, 82; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha gosn* or gosnee; v. not gain, win, &c.; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. C


chosn* or chosne; v. did gain or gained, did profit or earn; -agh, -ee, -ins, -it, -ym, -yms, -ys, [94]. C


er nyn graa; v. hath, &c. been shook or shaken. C


crackan; s. m. skin, peel, rind; pl. -yn [and craitnyn, see below].


craitnyn; s. pl. skins, peels.


craiu; s. m. an iron crow or lever; pl. -nyn.


cramman; s. m. a lump, bulb, or button; pl. -yn.


crantessen; s. m. diameter; pl. -yn.


er ny chredjal; v. believed on. C


creen; v. wither, ripen; -agh, 77; -ee, 80: -in, 83; -ins, 84; -it, 85; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


chreen* or chreenee; v. did ripen, &c. -agh; -aghey; -ys; 94.


Creestee; s. m. a Christian; pl. -yn or -nyn.


yn Chreestee; s. the Christian; pl. -yn or -nyn. C


scriss-ny-greg; s. f. a moss that grows on rocks, and is used in dying red.


crivassan; s. m. a shrunk or contracted creature; a dwarf; pl. -yn.


croaghan; s. m. a gadfly; a cratching [not in OED or EDD]; pl. -yn.


crockan; s. m. a crock; pl. -yn.


cron; s. m. a scar or cicatrice; a stain; pl. -yn.


cronn; v. descry, discern, perceive; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha gronn; v. not descry, discern, see or behold; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. C


chron; chronn*, or chronnee, v. did descry, discern, or behold; --agh; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. C


lus ny chroshey (sic); s. f. cudwort, cotton weed, chaffweed, or dwarf cotton.


crossan; s. m. coral; pl. -yn.


cruinn; v. close, compact, besiege; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


chruinn; v. did close, &c.; -agh; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94..


cruisht or cruishtin; s. m. a pitcher or pail; Eccl. xii. 6: Roish my vees yn coyrd argid er ny eaysley, ny’n saagh airh er ny vrishey, ny’n cruishtin brisht ec y chibbyr, ny’n whueeyl brisht ec yn arrey. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. pl. -yn.


cughlhin; s. m. a cone; pl. -yn.


er nyn guirrey; v. hath been bidden or invited. C


cuishlin; s. f. a vein; pl. -yn; but I have oftener heard it pluralized as 72 [change -in to -eeyn].


cur-ny-lieh; v. impeaching, accusing.


dy chur-ny-lieh; v. to impeach, to accuse. C


curneein; s. f. pet, huff; pl. -yn.


curneeinys; s. f. fickleness, &c.


cweshtan; s. m. a question; pl. -yn.


dooin; p. p. (pronounced duhn) to us, for us; -yn, id. em. The words hooin, rooin, and dooin are all to us, but used differently; as, cur dooin nyn arran (give us our bread), or rather, give to us our bread. Cur hooin eh (give it to us). Jannoo rooin (doing to us), &c.


daanys; s. f. boldness, presumption, &c.


danys; s. See deanys [deest, l. daanys ?].


dean; s. m. 7 [ḏ]. a goal or mark; pl. -yn.


deinys; s. f. wearisomeness, fatigue.


e gheinys; s. his wearisomeness. D


deyrsnys; s. dearness, high price.


dhonkan; s. m. a bruiser in a flax mill, a thumper to beat a pavement; pl. -yn.


dhonnan; s. m. one that is ill or poorly to do a thing; a dunce, dolt or dastard [OED: One inert or dull of wit, a dullard; a sot]. [pl. -yn. Psalm xxxv. 15: Agh ayns my arkys ghow ad boggey as haggil ad cooidjagh: dy jarroo, haink ny eer ghonnanyn cooidjagh m’oï nagh bione dou, jannoo craid jee’m, as cha scuirr ad. But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the very abjects came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.]


dhussan; s. m. a dozen; pl. -yn.


e ghussan; s. his dozen; pl. -yn. D


doghan; s. m. disorder, distemper, disease, illness; pl. -yn.


doltanys; s. m. adoption.


dooan; s. a hook, a fish hook; pl. -yn. The etymology of this word no doubt is doo (dark), and the diminutive -an, (the little thing that lies hid in darkness to deceive).


e ghooan; s. his hook; pl. -yn. D


dooin; v. i. close up, shut up or darken; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83;-ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


ghooin; v. did close, shut, or darken; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. D


dorrin; s. m. tempest, storm; pl. -yn.


dossan; s. m. a small bunch; 1 Sam. xxv. 18: Eisht ren Abigail siyr, as ghow ee daa cheead bwilleen? as daa haagh feeyney, as queig kirree aarlit, as queig towseyn dy arroo greddanit, as keead dossan dy raisinyn, as daa cheead baskad dy figgyn, as hug ee ad er assylyn. Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses; pl. -yn.


diun; v. deepen; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ym, 86; -ys. 88.


ghiun; v. did deepen; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. D


dreem or dreeym; s. m. back; pl. -inyn or -yn.


drein or drean; s. m. a wren; pl. -yn.


e ghrein; s. his wren; pl. -yn. D


drillin; s. m. a small particle of fire; pl. -yn, or drilleeyn.


eanin or eaynin; s. m. a precipice; pl. -yn.


earkan; s. f. a lapwing; pl. -yn.


eddin; s. f. a face, front, &c.; pl. -yn.


glaare-eddin; s. f. forehead; pl. -yn.


eign* or eignee; v. force, compel, constrain, oblige; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha n’eign* or neignee; v. not force; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. E


eilkin; s. m. an errand, a message; pl. -yn.


eirinys; s. m. husbandry, agriculture, farming.


erinys; s. See eirinys.


gerinys; <s>v. 61. farming<, husbandry>. E


er nyn eiyrt; adv. p. following after us, in pursuit of.


ellan; s. f. an island; pl. -yn.


enn* or ennee; v. feel; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha n’enn or n’ennee; v. not feel; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. E


ennaghtyn; s. m. feeling, sympathy; pl. -yn.


ennym; s. m. name, epithet, appellation; pl. see enmyn.


e hennym; s. her name. E


far-ennym; s. m. a bye name, a nick name, an agnomen, a name besides the real one.


er-ny-enmys; v. hath or having, &c. been called or named.


orrin; p. p. on us; -yn, id. em.


      er-lhien; p. we imagine or conceive; -yn, id. em.


er-ny; v. having, being.


      er nyn skyn; adv. p. above us, you, them.


essyn; s. m. a post, jamb of a door, the post of a door frame or gate; pl. -yn.


eunys; s. m. ecstacy, delight, pleasure, rapturous pleasure; pl. -syn.


eunyssagh; a. ecstatic, delightful, pleasant, delectable, affording pleasure in the highest degree; s. m. an enjoyer of ecstatic pleasure; pl. 71 [change -agh to -ee].


s’eunyssagh; a. how delectable, with what rapturous delight. E


s’eunyssee; a. id., [comp. and sup.,] 58. E


faanys; s. a breach in a fence; pl. -syn.


faastguin; s. f. a sponge; pl. -yn.


fadane or fadanys; s. m. a place left uncultivated, a lonely or solitary place, solitude.


lus ny fahnnaghyn; s. f. wartwort, spurge.


fer-ny-failley; s. m. a hireling [John x. 13. See below, fer-failt.] The last y in this word I think is wrong; it ought to be e. [Fer ny faillee in Isa. xvi. 14, and Isa. xxi. 16.]


faishnagh or faishnys; s. m. a telling before hand future events, foretelling, fortune telling, what is told by a fortune teller, generally used in a bad sense.


faiyr-sonnys; s. f. a kind of soft, whitish grass that grows in rich land.


famman; s. m. a tail; pl. -yn.


e amman; s. his tail; pl. -yn. Cloie rish e amman. [Playing with his tail.] F


fann; v. flay; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


ann; v. -agh; -ey; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94.


cha nann or nannee; v. not flay; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. F


far-ennym (sic: stress); s. m. a bye name, a nick name, an agnomen, a name besides the real one.


farrain; s. f. the herb avens, colewort, bonet, wild parsnip; pl. -yn.


fasn* or fasin; v. winnow, fan; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


asn; v. winnow; -in, -ins, -it, -ym, -yms; -ys. F


cha n’asn* or n’asnee; v. not winnow; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. F


feaynys; s. m. wideness, width, expansion, extention.


feayragan; s. m. a fan, a parasol; pl. -yn.


feddan; s. m. a flute, fife, whistle, pipe; pl. -yn.


cha neddan or neddanee; v. not whistle; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. F


fedjeen; s. f. the feather on an arrow; pl. -yn.


fedjeen; v. feather the arrow; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


feeyn; s. m. wine; pl. -yn.


fen* or fenee; v. ask, enquire; -agh, 77; -in, 88; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


my en* or enys; v. if ask or enquire; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. F


cha nen or nenagh (sic); v. not ask or enquire; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. F


fer-gherjee (sic) or fer-ny-gherjagh (sic); s. m. a comforter, a consolator, or consoler; pl.


fer loayrt er nyn son; s. m. one speaking for us.


fer-ny-failley; s. m. a hireling The last y in this word I think is wrong; it ought to be e [sc. fer-ny-faillee].


figgan; s. m. a hoop for a sieve or peck; a figure, a trap to catch birds; pl. -yn.


er ny filley; (folded).


firrinys; s. m. a truism, verity, truth, faithfulness.


anfirrinnys; s. m. untruth; pl. -yn.


neu-firrinys; s. f. untruth, false assertion.


flaunys; s. m. heaven, the seat of God, of holy angels, and the blessed, a place of felicity, bliss, or happiness beyond the conception of mortal man. Of the etymology of this word it may be remarked that, as heavenly or spiritual things cannot be understood but by their being compared with things temporal, Mr. James Macpherson, in a treatise un the immortality of the soul, page 180, when speaking of the ancient Celtics, says that it is from flath (noble or blessed) and innys (an island) the noble or blessed island. They imagined or believed that the virtuous went after death to some noble, blessed, or happy island; and hence the word flaunys. Our phlaase (a palace) may also be from hence. This word is never made use of for the aerial heaven. See niau.


flaunyssagh; a. felicitous, blissful, heavenly, angelic, celestial; s. m. an inhabitant of heaven; pl. 71 [change -agh to -ee].


s’flaunyssagh; a. how heavenly, angelic, felicitous, blissful, &c. F


s’flaunyssee; a. id., [comp. and sup.,] 58. F


foin; p. p. under us; -yn, id. em.


foaddan; s. m. a match to kindle fire; pl. -yn.


foghan; s. m. bruit [EDD s.v. breward: the young shoots of corn, grass, &c; and OED s.v. braird], the young bud or herbage of any thing; pl. -yn.


foillan; s. f. a gull; pl. -yn.


foillycan; s. m. a butterfly; pl. -yn.


follanid or follanys; s. m. wholesomeness, salubrity, orthodoxy.


fortan; s. m. fortune; pl. -yn.


freayn; v. flow or overflow; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.
s. m. a flow or flow over; pl. -aghyn. [pl. of freayney]


lus ny freenaghyn mooarey; s. f. dove’s foot, crane’s bill.


er nyn vreayll; v. hath, &c. been kept; Est. ix. 28: As dy beagh ny laghyn shoh er nyn vreayll ayns imraa as cooinaghtyn, trooid dy chooilley heeloghe. And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation. F


friogan; s. m. a fin, a bristle; offence; pl. -yn.


guilley-ny-ritlag; s. m. the manifold tripe [OED: the omasum or third stomach of a ruminant].


fud-ny-hoie; adv. through the night.


fuinn; v. bake; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


my uinn* or uinnys; v. if bake; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. F


cha nuinn; or nuinney, v. [not] bake; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. F


cha s’ain; p. we know not; -yn, id. em. <A>


gaaue; s. m. a smith; pl. -nyn.


gaauenys; s. m. smithery, smith craft.


gamman; s. m. game, sport; Jud. xvi. 27: …as va er mullagh y thie mysh three thousaneyn dy gheiney as mraane, va jeeaghyn er Samson, tra v’ad jannoo gamman jeh. …and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport; pl. -yn.


ganglanys; v. jangling [OED: To speak angrily, harshly, or discordantly; to grumble, murmur; to contend, dispute, wrangle, squabble], bickering, &c.


garmin; s. m. a weaver’s beam that the warp is rolled on in weaving; pl. -yn.


garran; s. m. a galloway, a pony; pl. -yn.


e gharran; s. his galloway or pony; pl. -yn. Prov. “Eshyn nagh bee mie rish e gharran, shegin da’n phollan y chur lesh er e vuin.” [He who will not be good to his pony must bring the saddle cloth on his back.] G


bun-ny-geayee; s. the wind’s eye, where the wind blows from.


lus ny geayee; s. f. anemone.


fer-gherjee (sic) or fer-ny-gherjagh (sic); s. m. a comforter, a consolator, or consoler; pl. fir-gherjee, s. pl. comforters, consolers.


gialdin; s. m. a promise, a grant; pl. -yn.


dty ghialdinyn; s. pl. thy promises or grants. G


gialdynys; s. m. a promise, a grant; pl. -yn. e yialdynys, s. his promise, grant, &c. G


er ny yientyn; adv. having been conceived, conceived.


ghimman; s. m. an admirer, a suiter or lover; pl. -yn; Ezk. xvi. 33: T’ad cur faill da streebeeyn elley, agh t’ou uss stowal dty yiootyn da ooilley dty ghimmanyn, as failley ad dy heet hood veih dy chooilley ard, son dty vaarderys. They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.


glaare-eddin; s. f. forehead; pl. -yn.


eddinyn glassey; s. pl. (pale faces).


glenn; v. cleanse, clear, &c.; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


ghlen or ghlenn*; did cleanse or clean; -agh, -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. G


yn ghlioon; s. the knee; pl. -yn. G


glioon; v. kneel; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


ghlioon; v. did kneel; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. G


gliooneen; s. f. a garter; pl. -yn.


goggan; s. f. a noggin [OED: A small drinking vessel; a mug, cup, or ladle] or piggin [OED: A (small) pail or similar vessel, esp. a wooden one with one stave longer than the rest serving as a handle; a vessel of this sort used as a milking pail. Also: a (wooden) drinking vessel; a scoop or ladle consisting of a can with a handle on the side; a lading-can]; pl. -yn.


goll-rooin; adv. p. like us; -yn, id. em.


goon; s. m. a minister’s gown or surplice; pl. -yn.


grainn or grainnee; v. grave, carve; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


ghrain or ghrainn*; v. did grave or carve; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94.


grangan; s. m. a cross peevish person; pl. -yn.


granganid or granganys; s. m. crabbedness.


greim or greme; s. m. a bite, hold, stitch, gobbet, or bit; pl. -nyn. Prov. “Ta greme ayns traa cooie, sauail nuy.” [A stitch in time saves nine.]


grein; greinn*, or greinnee, v. encourage, incite, or prompt to action; Isa. xiii. 17: Cur-my-ner, greinnee-yms seose ny Medeyn nyn’oï, nagh bee scansh oc jeh argid; as er son airh, cha vel ad goaill taitnys ayn. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


ghreinn* or ghreinnee; v. did urge or stimulate, did encourage or raise the mind to action; <Ezra, i. 5>[See below, er ghreinnaghey]; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. G


grian; s. m. sun; pl. -yn. I have marked this word of the masculine gender; see Psl. xix. [5]: Ayndoo t’eh er hoiaghey cabbane son y ghrian; ta cheet magh myr dooinney-poosee ass e hiamyr, as goaill boggey myr dooinney lajer dy roie e choorse. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun: which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course; although common usage is against it.


cassan-ny-greiney; s. m. the zodiac.


irree-ny-greinney; [s.] m. the rising of the sun.


guilley-ny-ritlag; s. m. the manifold tripe.


guilley-ny-ushtey; s. m. the smallest of the young at a litter or birth.


gonnid or gonnys; s. m. soreness, as expressed in the following Prov. “Cha vel sonnys gonnys” (Store is no sore).


guin or guinn*; v. to pain or give pain; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


gyrn; v. snarl, grin; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


harrin; p. p. over us; -yn, id. em.


heurin; s. a he-goat; pl. -yn.


hibbyn; s. ivy; pl. -yn.


er ny imlaghey; v. hath, &c. been humbled.


imman; s. m. a drove; pl. -yn.


imman; v. drive; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 88; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms; 87; -ys, 88,


cha n’imman; v. not drive; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. I


ingan; s. m. an anvil; pl. -yn.


ingan; s. m. the issue, increase, or offspring of sheep, cattle, fowls, &c.; Job xxxix. 2 Vod uss goardrail ny meeaghyn t’ad goll; as nee foyd’s ta’n traa daue dy ymmyrkey nyn ingan? Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?; pl. -yn.


yngnyn; s. pl. nails, hoofs, or hooves, claws, Zech. xi. 16: …agh ee-ys eh feill ny roauyree, as raipee eh ny yngnyn oc ayns peeshyn. …but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.


inneen; s. f. daughter, girl; pl. -yn.


inneenyn mac; s. pl. son[’s] daughters.


inneenyn inneen; s. pl. daughter[’s] daughters.


inneenyn braar as shuyr; s. brother and sister’s daughters.


inneenyn daa huyr; s. pl. two sisters’ daughters.


inneenyn daa vraar; s. pl. two brothers’ daughters.


Innyd; s. f. Lent. See Laa-Innyd.


Laa-Innyd; s. m. Ash Wednesday, the first day of lent; from aoin or oine (a fast); it ought to be Laa-Aoinyd (a day of fasting); though we have it not for fasting, it is in the Erse.


Oie-Innyd; s. f. the night before Ash Wednesday. Prov. “Oie-Innyd bee dty volg lane; my jig laa Caisht yiow traast son shen.” [On Shrove Tuesday (the eve of the fast) thy belly shall be full; before Easter day comes thou shalt fast for that.]


irree-ny-greinney; s. m. the rising of the sun.


jaagh; s. f. smoke; pl. -yn or -eynyn.


jaghee; s. f. tithe, tenth; pl. -nyn.


jagheenys; s. m. tithing.


e yagheenys; s. his tithing trade. J


ard-jaghin; s. m. an archdeacon; pl. -yn.


jalloonys; s. m. idolatry; pl. -syn.


jargan; s. f. a flea; pl. -yn. Perhaps it should be jerkan, from its leaping.


jastan; s. m. a course or row of ling or heather laid on the ground from the hand of the puller; pl. -yn.


jin or jinn*; v. do, perform, &c.; -agh, 77; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87. See also jean.


jeebinys; s.


e yeebinys; s. his net or mesh work. J


jeeg; Luke xiv. 5: Quoi j’iu vees dow ny assyl echey er huittym ayns jeeg, nagh jean jeeragh y hayrn ass eh er y doonaght? Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?; pl. -yn or -inyn.


jeenys; s. f. a wedge; pl. -syn.


e yeennys; s. his wedge; pl. -syn. J


jeenys; v. wedge; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


yeennys; v. did wedge; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. J


jeenysey or jeenysal; v. wedging, &c.


dy yeennysey; v. to wedge. J


jeenysit; 85. wedged.


s’jeenyssit; a. how wedged. J


ro yeennysit; a. too wedged. J


jin; p. p. of us; -yn or jeeyn, id. em.; Gen. iii. 22: Cur-my-ner ta’n dooinney myr-yien er jeet dy ve myr unnane jinyn, dy toiggal mie as sie. Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.


jeih thousanyn as feed; a. thirty thousand. The jeig in this number [‘jeih thousaneyn jeig as feed’] must be wrong in Num. xxxi. 45.


jerlyn; s. f. darnel [OED: A deleterious grass, Lolium temulentum, which in some countries grows as a weed among corn]; pl. -yn.


yesheen; v. did ornament, embellish; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. J


jesheenys; s. m. trimmings, embellishments; pl. -yn.


e yesheenys; s. his ornamenting, &c. J


jeushan; s. f. a hinge; pl. -yn.


jiuleanys; s. m. sojourning, cotlery, living as not at home.


joan; s. m. dust, any dry thing pulverised to powder or dust; pl. -yn.


joan; v. dust; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys. 88.


yoan; v. did dust or dusted; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94, J


jough; s. f. drink. The Manks here surpasses the English, as that language has only the one word for verb and noun; the Manks verb of drink is iu; pl. -yn, or -inyn.


joyn; v. join; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys. 88.


yoyn; v. did join or joined; -agh. -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. J


kalkin; s. m. a calking iron; pl. -yn,


keayn; v. cry, weep; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys. 88.


cha geayn; v. not cry; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; 94. K


cheayn; v. did cry, or cried; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys. K


kialteenyn; s. pl. churches.


e chialteenyn; s. his churches. K


kerçheenys; s. f. the act of doing the meanest actions for hire, mean dependancy, slavishness, base, meanness.


e cherçheenys; s. his cullionness. K


kere or khere; s. f. a comb, wax; pl. -yn, or -nyn; <Psalm xix. 10>[see kere-volley below].


kerrinyn; s. pl. the pl. of kerroo and kerrin.


keyjeen; s. a cock’s comb, a hen’s comb; pl. -yn.


kiare-feed as nuy persoonyn jeig; a. s. ninety-nine persons; Luke xv. 7: Ta mee gra riu, dy bee boggey myrgeddin ayns niau, jeh un pheccagh ta goaill arrys, ny smoo na jeh kiare-feed as nuy persoonyn jeig cairagh, nagh vel feme arrys. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.


kerrinyn; s. pl. the pl. of kerroo and kerrin.


connagh-ny-g<h>iark; s. f. the herb henbane.


shirragh-ny-giark; s. m. the falcon, a hawk.


kibbin; s. m. a stake, spike, or peg driven or put into some thing to tie to; pl. -yn.


kionnan; [s.] the dim. of kione, a lump less than a head, a bundle; Acts xxviii. 3: As heih Paul kionnan dy vrasnagyn, as hug eh ad er yn aile, as haink ard-nieu ass y chiass, as lhian eh rish e laue. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand; pl. -yn.


kionn* or kionnee; v. buy, purchase; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87;-ys, 88.


cha gion or gionn*; v. not buy; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94.


chionn* or chionnee; v. 6. did buy, bought; -agh; -aghey; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. K


kirkin; s. m. an unsteady, inconstant person; pl. -yn.


kirkinys; s. m. inconstancy.


yn chishan; s. 6. the peck; pl. -yn. K


kiun* or kiunee; v. calm, tranquillize; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


chiun* or chiune; v. [did] calm; -agh; -aghey; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. K


kurn; s. m. a can; pl. -yn.


laa ny nuyr; s. the next day after to-morrow.


laa ny vairagh; s. lit. the morrow day.


Laa-Innyd; s. m. Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent; from aoin or oine (a fast); it ought to be Laa-Aoinyd (a day of fasting); though we have it not for fasting, it is in the Erse.


Laa’l Moirrey ny Gianle; s. m. Candlemas-day, kept on the second of February. Prov. “Laal Moirrey ny Gianle, lieh foddyr as lieh aile.” [Mary’s Feast Day of the candles, i.e., Candlemas, half fodder and half fire.]


Laa’l Moirrey ny Sansh or Sanish; s. m. the Annunciation day, kept by the Church on the 25th day of March.


laan; s. m. a stud, a mould; pl. -yn. Cant. v. 1[5]: Ta ny lurgaghyn echey myr pillaryn marble soit er laanyn dy airh ghlen, ta’n eddin echey myr Lebanon, thollee myr ny cedaryn. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.


laggan; s. a hollow, a dimple; pl. -yn.


lahn; v. mash; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 88; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


lannoon; s. m. a twin; pl. -yn.


lauenyn; s. pl. gloves.


leigh ny hAgglish; s. f. canon law.


lhien; p. p. with us, ours, belonging to us; -yn, id. em. See also lhian. Heb. xii. 25: Jeeagh-jee nagh der shin cooyl rishyn ta loayrt: son mannagh ren adsyn scapail hug cooyl rishyn ren loayrt er y thalloo, foddey smoo cha jig eh lhienyn, my hyndaa-ys mayd ersooyl voishyn ta loayrt veih niau. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven.


lhian; pro. our, ours, belonging to us, with us; -yn, id. em.


      er-lhien; p. we imagine or conceive; -yn, id. em.


lessoon; s. f. a lesson; pl. -yn.


lhampanid or lhampanys; s. m. langour, want of stiffness, debility.


lus millish ny lheeanagh; s. f. meadow sweet.


lus ny binjey lheeanagh; s. f. meadow trefoil.


lhemeen or lhemyn; s. a moth; pl. -yn.


lheunican; s. a sty on the eye lash; pl. -yn.


lhiann; v. flatten; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


lhiann; v. cleave; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


lhiastynys; s. m. debt. Prov. “Share goll dy lhie fegooish shibber na girree ayns lhiastynys.” [Better to go to bed supperless than to rise in debt.]


lhieen; v. fill, make full; -agh, 77 -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


lhieuan; s. m. elm; pl. -yn.


lhiy; s. f. a colt; pl. -aghyn, or -nyn. The latter is in Jud. x. 4: As va echey jeih mec as feed, va markiagh er jeih lhiynyn assyl as feed, as va oc jeih ard-valjyn as feed. And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities.


lhon; s. m. a blackbird; pl. -yn.


lhuan; s. f. any weak thing that comes out of due time, such as a lamb, calf, swarm of bees, &c.; pl. -yn.


Lhuanys or Lhunys; s. m. Lammas [OED: The 1st of August, ... observed as a harvest festival... Also, the part of the year marked by this festival].


lhun or lhunn*; v. launch; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88. The butt end of an oar is called lhun, because used to draw or launch a boat on.


lus millish ny lheeanagh; s. f. meadow sweet.


lus ny binjey; s. f. dropwort.


lus ny binjey lheeanagh; s. f. meadow trefoil.


lus ny binjey mooar; s. f. crudwort.


lus ny chroshey (sic); s. f. cudwort, cotton weed, chaffweed, or dwarf cotton.


lus ny fahnnaghyn; s. f. wartwort, spurge.


lus ny freenaghyn mooarey; s. f. dove’s foot, crane’s bill.


lus ny geayee; s. f. anemone.


lus ny minnag; s. f. dandelion, piss-a-bed.


lus ny moal moirrey; s. f. common mallows.


lus ny moyl moirrey; s. f. marsh mallows.


lieckan; s. f. (from lieh kione), cheek; 1 Kings xxii. 24: Agh hie Zedekiah mac Chenaanah er-gerrey, as woaill eh Micaiah er y lieckan, as dooyrt eh, Cre’n raad ghow Spyrryd y Chiarn voym’s dy loayrt rhyt’s? But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?; Job xvi. 10: T’ad er vlaakey orrym lesh nyn meeal: t’ad er my woalley er y lieckan dy naareydagh; t’ad er haglym ad-hene cooidjagh m’oï. They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me; and Luke vi. 29: As huggeysyn woaillys oo er y derrey lieckan, chyndaa myrgeddin yn lieckan elley: as eshyn ghoys ersooyl dty chloagey, ny bee noi dty chooat y lhiggey lesh myrgeddin. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also; what is seen in a profile view of the head; pl. -yn.


lieen; s. m. lint, flax, linen; pl. -teeyn or -teenyn. The pl. is used for nets, perhaps because they are made of flax; Eccl. vii. 26: As hooar mee ny shirroo na’n baase yn ven ta’n cree eck ribbaghyn as lieenteenyn, as e laueyn myr geulaghyn: quoi-erbee ta dy wooiys Jee shaghnys ee, agh bee’n drogh yantagh goit lioree. And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her; and Mark i. 18: As chelleeragh hreig ad nyn lieenteenyn, as deiyr ad er. And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.


cur-ny-lieh; v. impeaching, accusing.


liggin; s. m. slack water, eddy water, dead water, where or when there is no tide or stream; pl. -yn.


Cleragh-ny-Lioaryn; s. m. the Clerk of the Rolls.


liorin; p. p. by us; -yn, id. em.


loaganys; s. staggering.


fer loayrt er nyn son; s. m. one speaking for us.


loghan; s. f. a small lake; pl. -yn; the dim. of logh.


losgan; s. f. a lamp; pl. -yn.


louraanys; loihrey, or lourey, s. f. leprosy.


madyran or madran; s. m. the morning dawn, the twilight; pl. -yn.


magganys; s. torpor, numbness.


laa ny vairagh; s. the morrow or morrow day. M


laa ny vairagh; s. lit. the morrow day.


mannan; s. m. a kid; pl. -yn.


un vannan; s. one kid; pl. -yn. M


marçhan; s. m. a merchant; pl. -yn.


marçhanys; s. m. merchandize.


e varçhanys; s. his merchandize. M


marin; p. p. with us; -yn, id. em.


marvanys; s. m. mortality, frailty, frailness.


e varvanys; s. his mortality, &c. M


marranys; s. m. mistake, error; Job xix. 4: As abbyr dy vel mee fo marranys, ta my varranys lhie orrym pene. And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.


martlhan; s. f. a maw worm [OED: A parasitic worm which infests the stomach or intestines of humans and other mammals; esp. a nematode of either of the genera Ascaris and Oxyuris]; pl. -yn.


masoonys; s. m. masonry.


main; pro. us, we; -yn, id. em. See mayd.


meein; v. tame, assuage, abate; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


meen; v. to make mild, meek, &c.; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


veein or veeinee; v. did tame; make fine, small, or smooth; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. M


meinn; s. f. meal; pl. -yn.


meoirsnys; s. m. the moarship.


yn veoirsnys; s. the moarship. M


mienyn; s. pl. virtues; <Ecclesiasticus>[Wisdom of Solomon] viii. 7: As my ta dooinney graihagh er yn ynrickys, t’ee gymmyrkey mieyn (sic): son t’ee gynsaghey sheeltys as tushtey, cairys as dunnallys; lheid ny giootyn as nagh vod ny s’vondeishee ’ve ec deiney ayns ooilley nyn mea. And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.


e vienyn; s. his virtues. M


  bare dooinyn; best for us, em.


  bare lhienyn; we would rather, em.


lus villish ny lheeanagh; s. f. meadow sweet.


lus ny minnag; s. f. dandelion, piss-a-bed.


mithan; s. f. a mitten, a glove; pl. -yn.


moidynys; s, f. virginity, maidenhead.


[yn] voidynys; s. [the] virginity. M


moir-ny-ushtaghyn; s. f. a source of the waters; 2 Kings ii. 21: As hie eh magh gys moir ny ushtaghyn, as hilg eh yn sollan ayns shen, as dooyrt eh, Myr shoh ta’n Chiarn dy ghra, Ta mee er lheihys ny ushtaghyn shoh, cha bee ad veih shoh magh neu-follan, ny’n thalloo gennish. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.


Laa’l Moirrey ny Gianle; s. m. Candlemas-day, kept on the second of February. Prov. “Laal Moirrey ny Gianle, lieh foddyr as lieh aile.” [Mary’s Feast Day of the candles, i.e., Candlemas, half fodder and half fire.]


Laa’l Moirrey ny Sansh or Sanish; s. m. the Annunciation-day, kept by the church on the 25th day of March.


cloan-ny-mollaght; s. pl. cursed children.


mooar-aignys; s. m. magnanimity.


mooidjeen; s. m. (from mooie, out, and jeeyn, of us) an outlawed or excommunicated. person, one out of the pale of the church, a miscreant; pl. -yn.


mooidjeenys; s. m. miscreancy; pl. -yn.


e vooidjeenys; s. his miscreancy. M


e wooidjeenys; s. his outlawry. M


moon; v. piss, &c.; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


vooin; v. did make urine; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. M


mooirjeenys; s. f. appearance for rain, cloudiness, lowering, gloominess.


e vuirjeenys; s. his gloominess. M


lus ny moyl Moirrey; s. f. marsh mallows.


lus ny moal Moirrey; s. f. common mallows.


      my ny gione; p. p. about them, about whom; -s, id. em; <Jud. vi. 1[3]>[see below]:


      my-nyn-gione; p. p. about them; -s, id. em; Jud. vi. 1[3]: cre ta er jeet jeh ooilley e virrilyn my-nyn-gione dinsh nyn ayraghyn dooin? …where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of?


      mygeayrt y mooin; p. p. about us; -yn, id. em.


myghin; s. f. mercy; pl. -yn.


ard-vyghin; s. m. great mercy; pl. -yn.


myghinid or myghinys; s. f. mercifulness.


mooin or muin; p. p. about us, or mounted on us; -yn, id. em.


naboonys or nabooys; s. m. neighbourhood.


napin; s. m. a turnip; pl. -yn.


neu-firrinys; s. f. untruth, false assertion.


neu-haitnyssagh; a. unpleasing, unpleasant.


niaghyn; s. m. washing; pl. -yn.


nieunys; or nieunid, s. f. venomousness.


niurin; s. m. hell; pl. -yn.


niurinys; s. f. hellishness.


noid-ny-hanmey; s. m. the enemy of souls [sc. the devil].


laa ny nuyr; s. the next day after to-morrow.


ushag roauyr ny hoarn; s. f. the bunting.


oenyn; s. f. oxlip or cowslip.


oghsan; s. f. rebuke, reproof; pl. -yn.


fud-ny-hoie; adv. through the night.


trimshey ny hoie; s. the dead of the night.


Oie-Innyd; s. f. the night before Ash Wednesday. Prov.
“Oie-Innyd bee dty volg lane
My jig laa Caisht yiow traast son shen.”
[On Shrove Tuesday (the eve of the fast) thy belly shall be full; before Easter day comes thou shalt fast for that.]


oikan; s. m. an infant; pl. -yn. There is a pronunciation of this word on the south side of the island oinkan or inkan.


oikanys; s. f. infancy, first part of life.


ollaghan; s. m. an angle, the angle on a hedge spade for the foot; pl. -yn.


ollan; s. wool; pl. -yn.


oltey; s. m. a member of society, a member of a body of people; pl. -nyn.


oltooan; v. reproach, disgrace; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha n’oltooan; v. not reproach; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. O


ommidan; s. m. a fool; pl. -yn.


osn* or osnee; v. sigh; -agh, 77; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha n’osn* or n’osnee; v. not sigh; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. O


aart-ny-paart; lot nor part.


paggan; s. f. a cloth used under a child, a double [OED double 5: A fold; a folded piece of stuff]; pl. -yn.


pannys; s. f. penance; pl. -syn.


papan; s. m. a pope; pl. -yn.


papanys; s. f. popery.


pardoon; s. m. pardon, forgiveness; pl. -yn.


pardoon; v. pardon, remit; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


phardoon; v. did pardon or pardoned; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. P


partan; s. f. a crab; pl. -yn.


perkin; s. m. a prater, an impertinent, saucy fellow, a pragmatic [OED: An officious or meddlesome person, a busybody; a conceited person]; pl. -yn; Ecclesiasticus xx. 8: Ver sleih feoh da’n perkin: as bee dwoaie oc ersyn ta goaill rouyr taggloo er. He that useth many words shall be abhorred; and he that taketh to himself authority therein shall be hated.


perkinys; s. f. prate, pragmaticalness.


persoon; s. m. a person; pl. -yn.


pesson; s. m. a rector; pl. -yn.


pessonys; s. f. the office of a rector.


pian; s. m. (sounded peean), pain; pl. -yn. I think that this word is nothing more than a corruption of the English, and could be well dispensed with. See guin.


phian; v. did pain or pained; -agh; -ee; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. P


pibbin; s. f. a puffin; pl. -yn.


pishin; s. m. a kitten; pl. -yn, or 72 [change -in to -eeyn].


pollan; s. a saddle cloth, a cloth for the back of a horse; pl. -yn.


pryssoon; v. imprison; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha brysoon; v. [not imprison;] -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms, 94. P


Purt-ny-Hinshey or Innysey; s. Peel, literally, the harbour of the Island —the town and harbour of Peel. Some say that this word is derived from ny hinshley, (the low situation); others from ny ynsee (the seat of the literate): but it is obviously from inch or innys (an island), the genitive article ny changes inch to hinch and -ey; in that case, the harbour of the Peel Island.


pyshoon; s. m. poison; pl. -yn.


pyshoon; v. poison; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


[er] nyn byshooney; v. hath, &c. them poisoned. P


quallian; s. m. a cub, a pup or whelp; pl. -yn.


raanteenys; s. f. suretiship.


raghtanys; s. f. rigour; pl. -yn.


rangan; s. m. a worn out animal; pl. -yn.


rass; s. m. seed; pl. -yn or -inyn. Phrase, rass as cass. [Seed and foot, i.e. root and seed, or root and branch.]


raun; s. f. a seal, a sea-calf; pl. -teeyn or -yn; Lam. iv. 3: Ta eer raunyn ny marrey tayrn magh nyn sheeintyn, t’ad cur keeagh da ny quallianyn oc. Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones.


re-hollys vooar ny gabbyl; s. f. the moonlight-that immediately follows the former.


readan; s. f. a windpipe; a sharp puff or blast of wind; pl. -yn.


reen or reenee; v. toughen, to get tough; -agh, 77; -ys, 88.


resoon; s. m. reason, rationality; pl. -yn.


resoon; v. reason; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


rheynn; v. divide, distribute; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


rheynn; s. m. a division, a distribution; pl. -yn.


rhollan; s. f. a whirler, spool, a nave; pl. -yn; sheeves [EDD sheave, sheeve: A pulley-wheel; a pulley of any kind]; 1 Kings vii. 33: As va obbyr ny queeylyn casley rish obbyr queeyl fainagh; va ny essylyn oc, as ny rhollanyn oc, as ny croughyn oc, as ny spakyn oc ooilley roit. And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.


riftan; s. m. a refused person, a worthless fellow; pl. -yn.


riggan; v. rut; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -ys, 88.


rooin; p. p. to us, used in, doing to us; -yn, to us, em.


roagan; s. f. a scollop; pl. -yn.


roddan; s. f. a rat; pl. -yn.


roïn; p. before us; -yn, id. em.


rouan; v. idem; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


rouanid or rouanys (sic: stress); s. f. riotousness, rioting.


er ny ruggey; v. hath, &c. been born.


rybban; s. m. a riband; pl. -yn; Num. xv. 38: Loayr rish cloan Israel, as oardee, dy der ad fringeyn er rhumbyllyn nyn gharmadyn, trooid ny sheelogheyn oc, as dy der ad er fringe ny rhumbyllyn rybban gorrym. Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue.


rydlan; s. f. a cribble [OED: a sieve], a riddle [OED: A coarse-meshed sieve, used to separate sand from gravel, ashes from cinders, etc.]; pl. -yn.


saaue; s. m. a saw; pl. -nyn.


saveen; v. id., -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


saveenys; s. f. supineness, sluggishness; pl. -yn.


scaalhean; s. m. a broad scatter; pl. -yn.


scaan; s. an apparition, a ghost, a spectre, a spirit; pl. -yn; Luke <x>xxiv. 37: Agh v’ad seaghnit ayns nyn aigney as agglit, as heill ad dy nee scaan v’ad dy akin. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit, and Mat. xiv. 26: As tra honnick ny ostyllyn eh shooyll er y cheayn, v’ad atchimagh, gra, She scaan t’ayn; as deïe ad magh ayns aggle. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.


scaanjoon; s. f. a phantom, a skeleton; pl. -yn.


skeiltan; s. m. a lath; pl. -yn.


scoidan; s. m. the sheet of a sail; pl. -yn.


scoodyn; s. f. a nasty scruff or scum, found on vessels which are not kept properly clean; pl. -yn.


scowan; s. f. a lung or light; pl. -yn.


scriss-ny-greg; s. f. a moss that grows on rocks, and is used in dying red.


seaghin or seaghyn; v. afflict, trouble, grieve, &c.; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


heaghn* or heaghnee; v. did trouble or agitate; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. S


seyirsnys; s. f. carpentry.


seyrsnys; s. f. freedom, justification.


shaghn[*] or shaghin; v. shun, avoid, eschew, spare, escape; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


haghn or haghnee; v. did spare, spared, shunned, or evaded; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. S


shaghrynys; s. f. the state of being astray, or out of proper mind or senses, confusion; Gen. xi. 7: Tar-jee, lhig dooin goll sheese, as ayns shen coyrt shaghrynys er y ghlare oc, nagh vod yn derrey-yeh toiggal glare yn jeh elley. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech; deviation, error; James v. 20: Lhig da fys ’ve echey, dy jean eshyn ta chyndaa yn peccagh veih shaghrynys e raad, sauail annym veih baase, as ymmodee peccaghyn y choodaghey. Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.


shaghrynys credjue; s. heresy; Acts xxiv. 5: Ta shin er gheddyn yn dooinney shoh fer erskyn towse boiragh, as doostey anvea mastey ooilley ny Hewnyn er feaï-ny-cruinney, as ny ard-leeideilagh ayns shaghrynys credjue ny Nazarenee. For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.


sheayn ny mea; in. (probably a contraction of shee ayns nyn mea) peace in your life, peace be to ye. Prov. “Sheayn dty hie as dty aaght ta’n fer driaght ec dty ghorrys.” [Peace to thy house and thy lodging, the chainer is at the door. (Or, preferably, Peace on thy house and lodging, the officer of justice is at thy door.)]


heayn or heaynee; v. did pray or ejaculate [OED: To utter suddenly (a short prayer)]; -agh; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. S


sheeabin; s. m. soap; pl. -yn.


sheean; v. noise, sound, &c. Though this word is seldom used as a verb singly, it is sometimes used pronominally, and with the terminations; -agh; -al; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; & -ys, 88.


sheeyn; v. stretch, extend, distend; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


heeyn; v. stretched, did stretch; -agh; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. S


shellan; s. f. (sic) a bee; pl. -yn.


e hellan; s. his bee; pl. -yn. S


shiaghtin; s. f. a week; pl. -yn or 72 [change -in to -eeyn].


e hiaghtin; s. his week; pl. -yn. S


shin; pro. we, us; -yn, id. em.


shliawnid or shliawnys; s. slipperiness, slapiness.


shlingan; s. f. the shoulder, or back part of the shoulder; pl. -yn.


e lhingan; s. his shoulder; pl. -yn. S


shooyll-ny-dhieyn; v. begging.


shoushan; s. f. a shive [EDD: A small wild onion; a spring onion, esp. Allium Schoenoprasum]; pl. -yn.


e hioon; s. his rush; pl. -yn. S


shirragh-ny-giark; s. m. <the>a falcon, a hawk.


skeaban; s. f. a brush; pl. -yn.


skeddan; s. m. a herring, herrings; pl. -yn.


skerin; s. m. a splice or scarf; pl. 72 [change -in to -eeyn] or -yn.


skian; s. f. a wing; pl. -yn.


er nyn skyn; adv. p. above us, you, them.


slaan; v. heal; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


sladdan; s. f. a wash staff [not in OED or EDD; Hiberno-English = a beetle: ‘a thick long piece of wood with a handle, used in beating coarse cloths for the purpose of cleaning them[43]]; pl. -yn.


sleean; s. f. a goad; pl. -yn; Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 25: Kys yiow eshyn mooarane ynsagh ta cummal y cheeaght, as ta boggyssagh jeh’n sleean; ta gimman y chesheraght, ta cur-rish obbyr vagheragh, as e haggloo mysh ny dew?. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?


sleggan; s. f. a cleaver; pl. -yn.


slibbin; s. m. sloven; pl. -yn.


sliman; s. m. a loose garment; pl. -yn.


smooin; v. think, recollect, consider; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


snaie; s. m. thread, a quantity of yarn or thread; pl. -nyn.


sniengan; s. f. an ant, a pismire [OED: an ant]; pl. -yn.


dty hollaghyn; s. thy croudy; pl. -yn. S


sollan; s. m. salt; pl. -yn.


sonnys; s. f. satiety, abundance, plenitude, luck.


e honnys; s. his satiety or abundance. S


faiyr-sonnys; s. f. a kind of soft, whitish grass that grows in rich land.


sonnyssagh; a. abundant, copious, abounding in plenty; Jer. li. 13: O uss ta cummal er ymmodee ushtaghyn, sonnyssagh ayns berchys, ta dty yerrey er jeet, as towse dty haynt. O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.


sonnyssee; a. id., comp. and sup.


sooill ny geayee; s. f. the wind’s eye, the point the wind blows from; Acts xxvii. 15: As tra va’n lhong er ny imman noon as noal, as nagh row ee son jannoo raad noi sooill ny geayee, lhig shin jee tuittym lesh. And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.


er ny hoylaghey; v. to be compared, or being compared, typified or likened; Mat. xiii. 24: Ta reeriaght niau er ny hoylaghey gys dooinney chuirr rass mie ayns e vagher. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. S


spain; s. m. (spein), a spoon; pl. -yn.


spattan; s. light lodged corn [EDD lodge v.: Of corn or grass: to lie flat, to be beaten down by wind and rain; gen. in pp]; pl. -yn.


speein; v. peel, strip off the rind, skin, husk, or bark; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


spinnycan; s. f. the disease in fowls, called the pip; pl. -yn.


splughan; s. f. a pouch; pl. -yn.


sporran; s. a purse; pl. -yn.


sproghan; s. the crop of a fowl; pl. -yn.


staayn; v. oppose, stand firm against; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


stappan; s. m. a stump; a small one, as that of corn after being cut; pl. -yn.


stabban; s. m. a small stump; pl. -yn.


sthangan; s. f. a small debt; pl. -yn.


sthowran; s. m. a statue; a person in contempt, standing as a pole or statue; pl. -yn.


streean; s. f. a bridle; pl. -yn or -teeyn.


e hreean; s. his bridle; pl. -yn. S


stroin; s. f. a nose; pl. -yn or -teeyn.


stroanyn; s. pl. nostrils.


stron; s. m. a snort or snuffle; pl. -yn.


stron; v. id; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


strooan; s. f. a stream; pl. -yn.


huggain; v. did bind with straw rope; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. S


surn; s. f. a fire-place in a kiln, or under an oven; pl. -yn.


symn; v. cite, summon, publish bans of matrimony; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


synnin; s. f. a tug or thong, from the middle of the small swingletree [OED: In a plough, harrow, carriage, etc., a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces are fastened, giving freedom of movement to the shoulders of the horse or other draught-animal] to the end of the large one, in which irons are now used; pl. -yn, or synneeyn.


taaue; s. f. a squeam [not in OED in this sense ? = nausea] or qualm [OED: A sudden feeling or fit of faintness or sickness. In later use: esp. a sudden feeling of nausea]; a reach in vomiting; pl. -nyn.


taitnys; s. f. pleasure, delight; pl. -yn.


e haitnys; s. his pleasure. T


taitnyssagh; a. pleasant, delightful, acceptable; Acts xxiv. 27: Agh ec kione daa vleïn haink Porcius Festus ayns ynnyd Felix: as son dy row Felix booiagh jannoo nhee taitnyssagh da ny Hewnyn, daag eh Paul ny phryssoonagh. But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.


s’taitnyssagh; a. how pleasing, delightful, or desirable. T


s’taitnyssee; a. id., [comp. and sup.,] 58. T


ro haitnyssagh; a. too pleasing. T


neu-haitnyssagh; a. unpleasing, unpleasant.


taitnyssid; s. f. pleasantness, delightfulness.


tann; v. tarry, continue, abide; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


hann* or hannee; v. did abide, continue, tarry, or endure; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


tannys; s. f. tenantry, tenant; pl. -yn.


e hannys; s. his tenantry or tenant. T


tannyssagh; a. tenantable.


tarmaynys; s. f. economy, good management; pl. -syn.


e harmaynys; s. his economy. T


tayrn; s. m. a draw; pl. -yn.


tayrn; v. draw, deduce; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha dayrn; v. not draw<n>; -agh; -in; -it, 85; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


hayrn; v. drew, did draw; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


teaystn* or teaystnee; v. knead, or bake; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


cha deaystn* or deaystnee; v. not knead; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym 94. T


heaystn or heaystnee; v. did knead or kneaded; -agh; -in; -ins; -it; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


crantessen; s. m. diameter; pl. -yn.


thann* or thannee; v. thin, rarify; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


hann; v. did make thin or thinned; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


shooyll-ny-dhieyn; v. begging.


thoagan; v. gape with the mouth open, staring; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


thoaganys; s. f. gaping, staring.


tholtan; s. m. a house in ruins or in a ruinous state, a house left to have holes in its roof; pl. -yn.


thornane; s. m. a wooden hammer or mallet; pl. -yn, or 69 [change -e to -yn].


thorran; s. f. a dunghill; pl. -yn.


ad ny dhree; s. they the three. T


toilçhinys; s. f. deservings, merits.


dty hoilçhinys; s. thy merit or deserving. T


tonn; s. f. a wave; pl. -yn.


e honn; s. his wave; pl. -yn. T


tooran; s. f. a turret, a small tower; a round corn stack; pronounced thurran; pl. -yn.


torcan; s. f. suffocating fume, reek, vapour of smoke; Acts ii. 19: As soilshee-ym yindyssyn ayns yn aer heose, as cowraghyn er y thalloo wass; fuill as aile, as torcan dy yaagh. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke; pl. -yn.


torcanys; s. f. suffocation.


er ny horçhaghey; v. being tormented. T


er nyn dorçhaghey; v. being tormented. T


towshan; s. m. a measurement, <the> measure; pl. -yn.


e howshan; s. his measurement; pl. -yn. T


traagh; s. f. hay; pl. -yn or -inyn.


e hraagh; s. his hay; pl. -inyn. T


treickn; v. beetle, strike with a beetle [EDD: A heavy wooden mallet, often bound with iron, used for driving stakes, laying flagstones, &c.]; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


hreickn* or hreicknee; v. did beetle or beat with a beetle; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


trein; v. nail, fasten with nails; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


hrein or hreinn*; v. did nail or nailed; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


treoghan; s. f. an orphan; pl. -yn.


trimshey ny hoie; s. the dead of the night.


trughanys; s. f. murmur, grumble.


tun; v. draw ale off in casks; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83 ; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


hunn; v. did tun, tunned; -agh; -in; -ins; -ym; -yms; -ys, 94. T


[er nyn] dwoaie; a. aware; as, bee-jee er nyn dwoaie (beware ye, or be ye aware); Mat. vii. 15: Bee-jee er nyn dwoaie jeh phadeyryn foalsey, ta cheet hiu ayns coamrey keyrragh, agh cheu-sthie t’ad nyn moddee-oaldey jollyssagh. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves; Col. ii. 8: Bee-jee er nyn dwoaie nagh gow dooinney erbee vondeish erriu trooid ynsagh foalsey as molteyraght, lurg cliaghtaghyn deiney, lurg ynsagh annoon y theihll, as cha nee lurg Creest. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.


udlan; s. f. a swivel; pl. -yn.


undin; s. m. foundation, basis; pl. -yn.


ushag roauyr ny hoarn; s. f. the bunting.


guilley-ny-ushtey; s. m. the smallest of the young at a litter or birth.


moir-ny-ushtaghyn; s. f. a source of the waters; 2 Kings ii. 21: As hie eh magh gys moir ny ushtaghyn, as hilg eh yn sollan ayns shen. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there.


voin; p. p. from us; -yn, id. em.


wooin; p. p. from us; -yn, id. em. V


wappin; s. m. a weapon; pl. -yn.


yiarn; s. m. iron; pl. -yn.


yiarn; v. iron; -agh, 77; -ee, 80; -in, 83; -ins, 84; -ym, 86; -yms, 87; -ys, 88.


ynnyd; s. f. a stead, impression, place, station, site, vestige; pl. -yn.


ass-ynnyd; adv. out of place, out of joint.


ayns ynnyd; adv. in lieu, place, stead of, in joint.


syn-ynnyd; adv. in lieu of, instead, in place of.


ynnyd-veaghee; s. f. a dwelling place.


ynnyd y vreck; s. f. the marks of the small pox.


ynnydagh; a. having impressions, marks of what had been, local.


yskan; s. an ell; pl. -yn.