Lessoon Shiaght Feed as Hoght-Jeig: Ellan Avalon
Lesson One Hundred and Fifty-Eight: The Isle of Avalon

shiaght feed as hoght-jeig (SHAKH-FEED-azz-HAWKH-jegg) - 158

Co-loayrtys
Ealish: Jeeagh er y phabyr-naight shoh. T’ad gra dy row cooyrt Ree Arthur ayns Mannin. Myr shen, va Avalon ayns shoh ayns Mannin.
Catreeney: Cre’n fa t’ad gra shen? Ta shen beggan quaagh.
Ealish: T’eh gra dy screeu fer-shennaghys dy row Mannin currit fo chosh ec Ree Arthur sy vlein queig cheead as feed lurg Creest. Agh lurg shen hug Arthur yn Ellan er-ash da’n ree dooghyssagh. Chammah as shen,
liorish Arthur, haink y ree shen dy ve nane jeh Reejeraghyn y Voayrd Cruinn.
Catreeney: Cha gredjym shen. Nagh row skeealyn mychione y Voayrd Cruinn çheet rish keeadyn dy vleeantyn lurg y traa shen?

jeeagh! (JEE-akh) - look! watch!
We look on things in Manx: Jeeagh er y phabyr-naight shoh (JEE-akh-err-a-FAA-ber-NOY-akht-SHAW) - Look at (on) this newspaper.

cooyrt Ree Arthur (KOORT-ree-ARTH-ur) - King Arthur’s court
We don’t need the definite article ‘yn’ (‘the’) before ‘cooyrt’ here.

myr shen (mer-SHEN) - and so (‘as that’)
va (vaa) - was; were
beggan quaagh (BEGG-an-KWAAKH) - rather strange
screeu (skr’yoo) - wrote
fer-shennaghys (ferr-SHAN-akh-iss) - a historian
dy row Mannin currit fo chosh (the-row-MANN-in-KURR-it-fo-KHOSH) - that Mann was conquered (‘that Mann was put under foot’)

lurg Creest (lurg-KREEST) - after Christ
We can also express ‘in 520 A.D.’ by saying ‘ayns blein nyn Jiarn queig cheead as feed’ (unnss-BLAYN-nin-JARN-kwegg-KHEE-ud-azz-FEED) - ‘in the year of our Lord five hundred and twenty’.

hug...er-ash (HUG...err-ASH) - gave...back
dooghyssagh (DOOGH-izz-akh) - native; natural
chammah as shen (HOMM-a-azz-SHEN) - as well as that
liorish (L’YAW-rish) - by; by means of
haink...dy ve (HENK...the-VAY) - became (‘came to be’)
reejeraghyn (REE-jerr-akh-un) - knights
Y Boayrd Cruinn (a-BORD-KROO-inn) - The Round Table
skeealyn (SKEE-al-un) - stories
cheet rish (chitt-rish) - appearing
keeadyn (KEE-ud-un) - hundreds
dy vleeantyn (the-VLEE-un-tun) - of years