thanney
Manx
adjective
Definitions
- build lean, lank, spare, slim, skinny, lanky, weedy, thin, scraggy
- thin as paper
- thin of liquid, watery of soup, weak as solution
- watery of colour
- attenuated, tenuous, flimsy, meagre, slender
- hollow as friendship
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish tanae (narrow, thin, slender) inherited from Proto-Celtic *tanauyos inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (thin).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ténh₂us
Gloss
thin
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ταναός Ancient Greek
- *tenh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *ténh₂us Proto-Indo-European
- *þunnuz Proto-Germanic
- *těsnъ Proto-Slavic
- *tьnъkъ Proto-Slavic
- tenau Welsh
- tanae Old Irish
- tana Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- *tanauyos Proto-Celtic
- *tanawyos Proto-Celtic
- *tánuš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *tenwis Proto-Italic
- teng Northern Kurdish