taarnagh

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish toirnech,[1] a derivative of Old Irish torann, from Proto-Celtic *toranos. Cognate with Irish toirneach and Scottish Gaelic tàirneanach.

Pronunciation

Noun

taarnagh m (genitive singular taarnee, plural taarneeyn)

  1. thunder
    rooit haarnee
    a peal of thunder
    sheean haarnee
    the sound of thunder
    • 1730-1750, Pargeiys Caillit, published 1796, lines 977-978:
      As spraih lossey jarg, chentyn taarnee cheh,
      As dorrin aglagh, loayrt nagh voddym jeh.
      Spraying red flame, and hot thunderbolts,
      And a storm, unspeakably awful.
    • 1819, Yn Vible Casherick, Job 28:26:
      Tra ren eshyn oardagh son y fliaghey, as raad son tendreil y taarnagh.
      When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder.

See also

  • tendreil

Mutation

Mutation of taarnagh
radical lenition eclipsis
taarnagh haarnagh daarnagh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 toirnech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020), Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 356
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