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çhiu

çhiu

See also: chiu and chiù

Manx

Adjective

çhiu ‎(plural çheey, comparative çhee)

  1. thick
  2. stout, heavy
  3. (weather) foggy
  4. turbid

Derived terms

  • co-hiu ‎(“condense”, verb)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
çhiu hiu jiu
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology

From Old Irish tiug (compare Scottish Gaelic tiugh, Irish tiubh), from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tegus.

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