thalhear

Manx

Alternative forms

• thalleyr

Etymology

From Middle Irish táilliúr (compare Scottish Gaelic tàillear, Irish táilliúir), from Anglo-Norman tailour (compare English tailor), from taillier (“to cut; to shape”), from Late Latin taliō.

Noun

thalhear m (genitive singular thalhearagh, plural thalhearyn)

1. tailor (person who makes, repairs, and alters clothes)

Derived terms

• ben-thalhear m (“tailoress”)
• guiy thalhearagh m (“tailor's-goose”)
• jalloo thalhearagh m (“tailor's-dummy”)
• thalhearagh (“tailored”, adjective)
• thalhearagh m, thalhearys m (“tailoring”)

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
thalhear	halhear	dhalhear
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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