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mooir

mooir

Manx

Alternative forms

muir

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
keayn

Derived terms

Terms derived from mooir

ard-marragh ‎(“admiral”)
breck marrey ‎(“mackerel”)
caillagh varrey ‎(“hagfish; guillemot”)
cliwe marrey ‎(“cutlass”)
coo ny marrey ‎(“walrus”)
feeagh marrey ‎(“shag”)
gollan marrey breck ‎(“spotted redshank”)
gollan marrey ‎(“common tern”)

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”)
ree ny marrey ‎(“herring”)
shlig varrey ‎(“seashell”)
urley marrey ‎(“white-tailed eagle”)

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.