LESSON 5.


In Manx there are two adverbs of direction, the use of which is somewhat confusing at first. They have three forms, as follows: -


Rest

Heese down, below.

Heose up, above.


Motion to.

Sheese down, downwards.

Seose up, upwards


Motion from

Neese from below, up.

Neose from above, down.

The forms heese and heese are used after the verb 'to be,' and after prepositions without motion.

The forms sheese and seose are used after verbs with motion, as also are the forms neese and neose.


Examples:

  1. Ta dooinney heese y traid (there's a man down the street).
  2. Ta mee goll sheese y traid (I am going down the street)
  3. Tar neese veih'n traid (come up from the street).
  4. Irree seose! (get up! Rise up!).
  5. Tar neose as soie sheese er y chlagh vooar (Come down and sit down on the big stone.)
  6. V'ad cheet neose jeh'n clieau (they were coming down off the mountain)
  7. Lhie mee sheese, as dirree mee seose (I lay down and I rose up).

Da, to (when not emphasised often written dy).

Prepositional pronoun.

Simple Emphatic.

dou to me. dooys.
dhyt to you. dhyts.
da to him. dasyn.

j'ee to her. j'eeish.

dooin to us. dooinyn.
diu to you. diuish.
daue to them. dauesyn.


Examples:

Cur dou eh (give it to me).
Cur dooys eh, cha nee dasyn (give it to me, not to him).


Jeh, of.

Simple. Emphatic

jeem of me. jeems.
jeed of you. jeeds.
jeh of him. jehsyn.
j'ee of her. j'eeish
jin of us. jinyn
jiu of you. jiuish
jeu of them. jeusyn.


Hene added to a pronoun or noun means 'self',

mee-hene 'myself'
dou-hene 'to myself'
oo-hene 'thyself'
jeh-hene 'of himself.'
After the termination in m, hene becomes pene

jeem-pene of myself.
aynym-pene in myself.
aym-pene at myself.

VOCABULARY.

an-vennick seldom.
arragh any more.
bainney milk.
caashey cheese.
cassan pathway
cha row rieau never was.
cleigh cleiy hedge.
dy bragh ever in the future, to be.
dy chooilley nhee everything.
elley other, another.

(elley is placed after the noun, ymmodee, gagh and dagh, before it).

gagh, dagh every, each.
gyllagh er calling to (shouting on).
keayrt once, a turn, a time.
keayrt elley another time, once more.
keayrt-ny-ghaa many a time.
kinjagh dy kinjagh always.
magher field.
mennick often.
neayr since.
neesht both
nhee erbee anything at all.
nhee, nheeghyn thing, things.
ny or, nor.
raad road.
red erbee anything.
red, reddyn thing, things.
rieau the ever in the past, ever was.
seihll world.
son dy bragh as dy bragh for ever and ever
straid street
sy theill in the world.
voish y vagher from the field.
ymmodee many.

1.—Cur Baarle orroo shoh..

  1. Jean oo fakin eh keayrt elley?
  2. Heem's eh reesht mairagh; ny nuyr.
  3. Jean oo gyllagh er Juan dy heet thie voish y vagher?
  4. Ren eh clashtyn oo?
  5. Cheayll eh mee mie dy liooar.
  6. Hie mee sheese y traid dy gheddyn arran, as eeym as caashey as ymmodee reddyn elley.
  7. Ta mee goll seose y read nish.
  8. Jean oo goll seose reesht?
  9. Cha jean. Va shin goll sheese y raad.
  10. R'ou ayns shen jea? Va. Cha row.
  11. Jean oo shen reesht? Nee. Cha jean.
  12. Cre'n chiaulliaght (music) villish t'ayns shen? She (it is) Moirrey as Juan, t'ad goaill arrane.


2.— Cur Gaelg orroo shoh.

  1. Will he see me to-morrow?
  2. He will not; he saw you yesterday and the day before.
  3. I am going down the road. He is coming up the street.
  4. Have you (any) bread and milk?
  5. I have bread and cheese and milk.
  6. She has butter.
  7. I saw a man down the road.
  8. He did not see me.
  9. I shall see you to-morrow again.
  10. He will go to Douglas to-morrow.
  11. I was in Ramsey yesterday.
  12. She is in Castletown and we are in Peel.


A Phrase a Day for Learning and Use.



  1. Dirree me seose moghey moghrey jiu. (I got up early this morning.)

  2. Ta'n earish kiune as meein, lhig dooin goll magh. (The weather is calm and fine. let us go out.)

  3. C'raad hemmayd? (Where shall we go?

  4. Hemmayd roin seose gys y clieau dy yeeaghyn ny kirree. (We'll go (before us) up to the mountain to see the sheep).

  5. Bee eh feayr heose ayns shen. (It will be cold up there.)

  6. My vees-mayd feayr, hig-mayd neose reesht, agh ta'n ghrian soilshean er y clieau, as ta'n cassan goll seose dy-jeeragh. (If we will be cold we will come down again, but the sun is shining on the hill, and the pathway goes up directly).