thalhear
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Manx[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Irish táilliúr (compare Scottish Gaelic tàillear, Irish táilliúir), from Anglo-Norman tailour (compare English tailor), from taillier (“to cut; to shape”), from Late Latin taliō.
Noun[edit]
thalhear m (genitive singular thalhearagh, plural thalhearyn)
- tailor (person who makes, repairs, and alters clothes)
Derived terms[edit]
- ben-thalhear m (“tailoress”)
- guiy thalhearagh m (“tailor's-goose”)
- jalloo thalhearagh m (“tailor's-dummy”)
- thalhearagh (“tailored”, adjective)
- thalhearagh m, thalhearys m (“tailoring”)
Mutation[edit]
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| thalhear | halhear | dhalhear |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “táilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language