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toig

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See also: tóig and tőig

Mansaka

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Etymology

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From tuig.

Noun

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toig

  1. year

Manx

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish tuicid, from Old Irish ·tucci, prototonic form of do·ucai (to understand), from Proto-Celtic *unketi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁unékti, *h₁unkénti (to get used to, learn, nasal infix present) from the root *h₁ewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian jùnkti (to get used to) and Armenian ուսանել (usanel, to learn).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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toig (past hoig, verbal noun toiggal, past participle toiggit)

  1. understand, comprehend
  2. realize, construe, figure

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
toig hoig doig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *-u-n-k-e/o- 'verstehen'”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 653
  2. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) “ucc-”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume T U, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page U-13

Further reading

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