A dictionary of the Manks language, with the corresponding words or ...

ID, in Remark 89, is sometimes used ; as, dorrid
(darkness) ; and ynrick (upright, or sincere)
TNRicKvs (uprightness), &c.
94. For sake of abridging the work, the reader
is desired, in reference to derivative verbs and
their conjunction into pronominals, with the
auxiliary verbs shall, will, ivould, &c., to look to
the radical verb, as the letter placed at the end
of the explanation shows the initial from which
the branch-word is derived ; and the figures of
reference under the radical answer the meaning
in the same
0/ PECULIAlilTIES.
95. There arc several principles peculiar to the
idiom or phraseology of the Manks language,
when compared with the English ; such as the
unnecessariness of the indefinite article a, in
general.
97. A grand piinciple in Manks is the adjective
being placed after the noun or substantive.
In English, the adjective has precedence ; therefore
the quality of a thingis mentioned before the
thing itself; but in Manks, (more agreeable to
reason and common sense) the substantive precedes
the adjective; as, cabbyl mie (a good
horse); booa ghoo (a black cow); MAonEn
MOOAR (a big field). There are a few exceptions.
98. In possessing a p?i/?-a/ a(/;>c^'ye, the Manks
again has an advantage over the English, (there
being no diflference in the adjectives of singular
andpluralinthatlanguage);as, DEijfEYMOOAREY
(big or great men) ;
THIEYN BEGCEY (little hOUSBS), &C.
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croink ardey (high hiUs)
99. Another, is the derivative adjective, as I
have called it, of or belonging to a thing. My
reason for distinguishing this class of adjectives
from others is, that there are some nouns that
have two adjectives which differ materially in
their meaning ; for instance, the sun; as, laa
GRiANAGH (a sunny, or sun shiny day), which I
have left a common adjective; but greiney, I
have marked an adjective derivative, of or belonging
to the sun; as, cniASs greiney (the heat of
the sun, or the sun's heat) ; and glion (a glen or
valley) ; clionn'agh (having glens or valleys)
glioxney (of or belonging to the valley; as,
FiEE NY CLioNXEY (the ravcus of the valley)
and cassagh (having feet, or footed) ; as, maase
KiAR CASSAGH (four footcd kinc) ; cosHEY (of the
foot or feet) .
The English of this class of adjecti-
val words arc aspen, hempen, oaken, baptismal , &c.
100. Another principle is, the language not
making plural until three ; the numbers of twenty,
forty, sixty, eighty, a hundred, a thousand, &c.
These are not twenty or forty men, but, literally
twenty-man, &c. And I think the yn to siuach-
Tixv.v redundant, as in Daniel ix. 25 26.
101. Another and grand principle is, the em.
phatic : some instances of this are given in the
work; but any substantive, &c. may be made
emphatical hy adding 's, which requires to be
sounded es to the substantive, &c. ; as, dtv
chreb's (thy heart, emphatically) : dty obbyr's
(thy work, emphatically), &c. In the English, the
reader is left at sea %vithout a compass, if he has
not learned where to lay the emphasis, as few of
the words differ in their form in that language
for being emphatic ; when unempliatical, fhij is
to be sounded the, and 7/1?/, me, &c.
96. One peculiarity is, that the Manks pos-
102. The substantives being all masculine or feminine,
is another ; there being no such anomaly
in Manks as a neuter gender ; we have however a
sesses a plural article, nv (the); as, my deixev
(the men) ; ny claghy.v (the stones) : y and
YX are the singular definite articles. The collec-
fewnouns, pronouns, and pronominals common to
both genders. Some will have it that every word
in the language is either masculine or feminine.
tive nouns, such as, ollagh (cattle) ; sleih 103. The verbs running into auxiliary termi-
(people); LUGHT-xniE (household or family);
MAASE (kine), &c., are, as in the English, not
nations and pronominals ; as, aoh, ail, al, eil,
EY, IN, INS, IT, VN, VMS, and ys, as are shown by
reckoned plural nouns ; therefore, have only the the remarks of reference throughout the work,
definite article yn preceding them.
is another principle.
104. The adjectives and participles throughout
the language requiring to be brought under the
letter s', to show the degrees of comparison, as
set forth in the 5Sth Remark, are exemplified in
the work under that letter, is another.
1 05 The greatest difficulty to attain, by a person
that did not learn it when young, is the
changing of the initials of mutable consonants,
and of vowel letters, or the pronunciation of secondary
mutes or aspirations. There is very little
occasion for such changing in the EngUsh
but to give an English-scholar some idea of it, it
may be necessary to show him something similar
in his own language. The words from home require
no change ; but let him say at home, and he
can hardly say home without a hiatus, or longer
stop than ought to be ; he will be very apt to say
at tome : this is changing the h to t in speaking.
Or let hun say at all, and if he be not verj' careful
he will say at tall, or a tall, this is changing the
a to t. Or let him say the words, make haste, and
he will be very apt to say makekaste: this is
changing the h to A- ; and it is, he will be apt to
say it tis ; this is changing i to t.
106. And the article an, which is nothing more
than the article a with an n to come between it
and the word initialled by a vowel, if it were
placed before the vowel in the word would
amount to nearly the same thing ; then an egg
would be a negg; and an aul would be a naul
an eye would be a neye, &c. &c. ; these are somewhat
like the changing of the initials in the
Manks.