Lessoon Shey Feed as Jees: Tooilley Loghtyn
Lesson One Hundred and Twenty-Two: More Crimes

shey feed as jees (SHAY-FEED-azz-JEESS) - 122
tooilley (TULL-ya) - more

Co-loayrtys

Catreeney: She, raghtalys, shen y red ta cur imnea er feallee.
Ealish: Agh ta mee fakin dy row daa cheead, nane-jeig as daeed dy
haghyrtyn raghtal nurree cosoylit rish daa cheed, hoght-jeig as
feed sy vlein roish shen.
Catreeney: Agh my ta dunverys lhiassit mastey yn earroo sloo shen, cha nel
reddyn cheet dy ve ny share.

she (shay) - it is (‘yes’)
raghtalys (RAKHT-al-iss) - violence

In Manx, it is quite common to make an abstract noun from an adjective by adding ‘-ys’: ‘raghtal’ - ‘violent’: ‘raghtalys’ - ‘violence’.

imnea (imm-N’YAY) - anxiety, concern
feallee (FOLL-ee) - folk, folks

Shen y red ta cur imnea er feallee (SHEN-a-RID-ta-KURR-imm-N’YAY-err-FOLL-ee) - That’s the thing which worries folk (‘That’s the thing which is putting anxiety on folk’).

daa cheead ... (DAA-HEE-ud) - two hundred...

‘daa’ (‘two’) makes the ‘k’ in ‘keead’ (‘hundred’) change to ‘ch’.

taghyrtyn (TAGH-ert-un) - incidents

‘dy’ (‘of’) changes ‘t’ to ‘h’: dy haghyrtyn (the-HAGH-ert-un) - of incidents
‘k’ to ‘ch’ and ‘t’ to ‘h’ are examples of a mutation (letter change) called lenition.

cosoylit rish (ko-ZOLE-it-rish) - compared with
my ta (ma-taa) - if there is
dunverys (DUNN-verr-iss) - murder
lhiassit (L’YAZZ-it) - alleged
mastey (MAST-a) - among, amongst
yn earroo (in-IRR-oo) - the number
sloo (sloo) - lesser; least
shen (shen) - that
cheet dy ve ny share (CHITT-the-VAY-na-SHARE) - improving