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say it: mangks
manx is a noun and adjective meaning "the ancient Gaelic formerly spoken on the Isle of Man; the language is sometimes used on ceremonial occasions". It is pronounced /ˈmæŋks/ — mangks. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the ancient Gaelic formerly spoken on the Isle of Man; the language is sometimes used on ceremonial occasions
a short-haired tailless breed of cat believed to originate on the Isle of Man
of or relating to the Isle of Man or its inhabitants or their language
“the Manx fishing industry”
“there are few Manx speakers alive today”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for manx come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.