çheer

See also: cheer and Cheer

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish tír, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Noun

çheer f (genitive singular çheerey, plural çheeraghyn)

land, country, state, territory, shore
Çheer gyn çhengey, çheer gyn ennym. ― A country without a language is a country without a name.

Cheau mee laa er y çheer. ― I spent a day in the country.

Daag ad y çheer oc. ― They left their country.

Hie eh ass y çheer. ― He went abroad.

Jimmee eh trooid yn çheer. ― He passed through the country.

S'foddey yn çheer shen. ― That's a far country.

Shimmey yn tonn eddyr y lhong as y çheer. ― Many is the wave between the ship and the shore.

T'ee çheu hoal ny çheerey. ― She is on the other side of the country.

T'eh cummal ayns mean ny çheerey. ― He lives in the middle of the country.

T'eh foast ayns çheer ny bioee. ― He is still in the land of the living.

Ta'n awin yn slyst eddyr yn daa heer. ― The river separates the two countries.

Derived terms

Çheer ny Aeg (“Tír na nÓg”, literally “land of the youth”)
Çheer Vannee
co-heeragh
graih çheerey
graihder çheerey
kiaull çheerey

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
çheer	heer	jeer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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