molteyr

Manx

Etymology

moll (“fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick”) +‎ -teyr

Noun

molteyr m (genitive singular molteyr, plural molteyryn)

  1. deceiver, charlatan, duper, fraud, cheat, con man, impostor

Derived terms
  • molteyragh (“fallacious, insidious, fraudulent, deceptive; captivating”)
  • molteyraght (“deceit, deceitfulness; captivation”)

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
molteyrvolteyrunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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