thanney

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish tanae (“thin, slender, narrow”), from Proto-Celtic *tanauyos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tana.

Adjective

thanney

  1. (build) lean, lank, spare, slim, skinny, lanky, weedy, thin, scraggy
  2. thin (as paper)
  3. thin (of liquid), watery (of soup), weak (as solution)
  4. watery (of colour)
  5. attenuated, tenuous, flimsy, meagre, slender
  6. hollow (as friendship)

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