giar

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish gerrad (“cutting, lopping, felling”).

Verb

giar (verbal noun giarrey)

  1. (transitive) cut, cut back, prune, clip, dissect, shear, hack, incise, slit, carve, slash, sever
  2. (transitive, card games) cut (cards)
  3. (transitive, medicine) castrate, lance
  4. (transitive) disconnect
  5. (transitive) cut short, crop (as tail)
  6. (transitive) abbreviate, condense, abridge
    Synonyms: aagherr, girree, jean ny s'girrey
  7. (transitive) intersect
    Synonym: cross

Derived terms

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
giaryiarngiar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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