Lessoon Keead as Jees: Ceau Magh Ad?
Lesson One Hundred and Two: Throw Them Out?


ceau (k’yow) sounds like ‘how’ - throw! throwing
magh (makh) - out
ad (add) - they; them

Remember that the two most important parts of a Manx verb are the imperative (for giving orders, like ‘throw!’) and the verbal noun (these all end in ‘-ing’ in English, like ‘throwing’). ‘Ceau’ is an example of a verb where the imperative and the verbal noun are the same.

For ‘Throw them out’, we could say ‘Ceau ad magh’, with the same word order as in English. ‘Ceau magh ad’ is the more ‘Gaelic’ order.


treealtys (TREE-ult-iss) - proposal
kimmagh (KIMM-akh) - criminal
kimmee (KIMM-ee) - criminals
Manninagh (MANN-in-akh) - Manx

....ny kimmee nagh vel Manninagh (na-KIMM-ee-nakh-VELL-MANN-in-akh) - ... the criminals who aren’t Manx

Note that Manx doesn’t need a word for ‘who’ here. Note also:

ny kimmee ta Manninagh - the criminals who are Manx

lane shickyr (ledd’n-SHIGG-er) - completely certain
my-e-chione (ma-a-H’YOWN) - about it
kevys dhyt? (kevv-iss-DUTT) - how do you know?
dy vel ad (the-VELL-add) - that they are
dyn (din) - without
ny dyn (na-DIN) - or not
ny meoiryn-shee (na-MERR-un-SHEE) - the police
yn olk (in-ULK) - the mischief
ourys (OW-riss) - doubt

Ta ourys aym er (ta-OW-riss-IMM-err) - I doubt it
(‘There is doubt at me on it’).

Co-loayrtys

Peddyr: C’red t’ou coontey jeh’n treealtys shoh dy cheau magh ny kimmee
nagh vel Manninagh?
Ean: Cha nel mee lane shickyr my-e-chione. Kevys dhyt dy vel ad
Manninagh ny dyn?
Peddyr: Ta fys ec ny meoiryn-shee quoi ta jannoo yn olk.
Ean: Ta ourys aym er.

Tooilley Gaelg: Ceau Magh Ad?

Cur Gaelg orroo shoh.
about it my-e-chione
completely certain lane shickyr
criminal kimmagh
criminals kimmee
doubt ourys
how do you know? kevys dhyt?
Manx Manninagh
or not ny dyn
out magh
proposal treealtys
that they are dy vel ad
the mischief yn olk
the police ny meoiryn-shee
they; them ad
throw! throwing ceau
without dyn

Cur Baarle orroo shoh.

  1. C’red ta Peddyr coontey jeh shoh?
  2. Cha nel Ean lane shickyr my-e-chione.
  3. Ta ourys ec Ean.
  4. Quoi ta ny kimmee?
  5. Kevys dhyt Ean?
  6. C’red ta ny meoiryn-shee coontey jeh ny kimmee?
  7. Ta fys ec Ean dy vel ad kimmee Manninagh.
  8. C’red t’ou coontey jeh’n treealtys shoh?
  9. Ny kimmee nagh vel Manninagh?
  10. Ta fys ec Peddyr agh cha nel Ean lane shickyr.
  11. Cha nel mee lane shickyr my-e-chione.
  12. Kevys dhyt dy vel ad Manninagh ny dyn?
  13. Ta fys ec ny meoiryn-shee quoi ta jannoo yn olk.
  14. Quoi ta jannoo yn olk?
  15. Ta ourys aym er yn treealtys dy cheau magh kimmee.


Vel fys ayd?

a) In which word are the imperative and the verbal noun are the same?


b) For ‘Throw them out’, we could say ‘Ceau ad magh’, with the same word order as in English. ‘What is the more ‘Gaelic’ word order?

c) Note that Manx doesn’t always need a word for ‘who’.
How would you say ‘The criminals who are Manx’?

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