mooar

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mór.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muːr], [muːɹ̝], [muːə̯], [muː]

The pronunciations [muːɹ̝], [muːə̯], and [muː] are due to English influence as perhaps is [muːr] with [uː] rather than [uə] (which is not phonemic in English). The spelling mooar possibly suggests a traditional pronunciation of [muəɾ] like the Munster Irish muar, a by-form of Irish mór.

Adjective

mooar (plural mooarey, comparative moo, superlative smoo)

1. big, great, grand, heavy, powerful, extravagant

   Bee argid mooar ass.

   It will bring in big money.

   By haittin mooar lhiam fakin ee reesht.

   It would afford me great pleasure to see her again.

   Cha nel eh lieh cho mooar as shen.

   He is not half so big as that.

   Daag eh sluight mooar ny yei.

   He left a large posterity behind.

   Diu eh ooilley lesh slug mooar.

   He drank it at a draught (literally, ‘with a big swallow’).

Derived terms

• Alistair Mooar (“Alexander the Great”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mooar	vooar	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.