eairkagh

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish adarcach.[1] By surface analysis, eairk +‎ -agh. Cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic adharcach.

Adjective

eairkagh

  1. horned, antlered
  2. peaked
  3. long-eared
  4. crescent (of moon)

Derived terms

  • aase eairkagh (“corn (on foot)”)
  • deyll eairkagh
  • gant eairkagh (“roseate tern; sandwich tern”)
  • glass-eairkagh
  • gob eairkagh
  • hullad eairkagh (“long-eared owl”)
  • kellagh eairkagh
  • poht eairkagh
  • un-eairkagh (“unicorn”)

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adarcach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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