Manx

Meanings

Adjective

• Relating to the Isle of Man and/or its Celto-Germanic people.
• Relating to the Manx language (also known as Manx Gaelic), a Gaelic language of the Goidelic family.
• Relating to the Manx cat breed.

Noun

• A member or descendant of the Celto-Germanic people of the Isle of Man; a Manxman or Manxwoman.
• the Manx; Manx people.
• A breed of domestic cat native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and rounded, cobby body.
• With a truncated or missing tail.
• A cat of the Manx breed; a Manx cat.

Proper Noun

• A Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man.

Related

Similar words

• Manx cat

Origin

• Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn, from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk.