Ynys Manaw

Welsh

Etymology

From ynys (“island”) and a descendant of Proto-Brythonic *manawiā or *manawā.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˌənɨ̞s ˈmanau̯/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˌənɪs ˈmaːnau̯/, /ˌənɪs ˈmanau̯/

Proper noun

Ynys Manaw f

  1. Isle of Man (an island and Crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea)

Derived terms

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
Ynys Manaw unchanged unchanged Hynys Manaw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Kenneth Jackson, Language and history in early Britain (Dublin: Four Courts, 1994), 376.
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