honnick

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ad·condairc (compare Irish chonaic), perfect of ad·cí, from the Proto-Celtic [Term?] stem *derk-, from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- (“to see”).

Verb

honnick

1. past of faik

   Honnick eh mish çheet stiagh 'sy çhamyr.

   He saw me coming into the room.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·cí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language