mooir

Manx

Alternative forms

muir

Etymology

From Old Irish muir (compare Irish and Scottish Gaelic muir), from Proto-Celtic *mori (compare Welsh môr), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (compare Latin mare, English mere, German Meer, Dutch meer).

Noun

mooir f (genitive singular marrey, plural mooiraghyn)

sea
Er çheer as er mooir. ― By land and sea.
Ta'n eeast shoh snaue er eaghtyr ny marrey. ― These fish swim on the top of the sea.

Synonyms

faarkey
Juan Gorrym (lit. "blue John", fishermen's slang)
keayn

Derived terms

ard-marragh (“admiral”)
breck marrey (“mackerel”)
caillagh varrey (“hagfish; guillemot”)
cliwe marrey (“cutlass”)
coo ny marrey (“walrus”)
feeagh marrey (“shag”)
gollan marrey (“common tern”)
gollan marrey breck (“spotted redshank”)
ree ny marrey (“herring”)
shlig varrey (“seashell”)
urley marrey (“white-tailed eagle”)
Yn Vooir Antarctagh (“Southern Ocean, Antarctic Ocean”)
Yn Vooir Arctagh (“Arctic Ocean”)
Yn Vooir Charibagh (“Caribbean Sea”)
Yn Vooir Chaspagh (“Caspian Sea”)
Yn Vooir Cheltiagh (“Celtic Sea”)
Yn Vooir Ghoo (“Black Sea”)
Yn Vooir Ruy (“Red Sea”)
Yn Vooir Valtagh (“Baltic Sea”)
Yn Vooir Vane (“White Sea”)
Yn Vooir Varroo (“Dead Sea”)
Yn Vooir Vuigh (“Yellow Sea”)
Yn Vooir Yiass (“South Sea”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mooir	vooir	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“muir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.