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Manx

[mangks]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, its inhabitants, or their language.
–noun
2. (used with a plural verb) the inhabitants of the Isle of Man.
3. the Gaelic of the Isle of Man, virtually extinct.

Origin:
1565–75; syncopated and metathesized form of earlier Manisk(e) < ON manskr of the Isle of Man, equiv. to Man name of the island + -skr adj. suffix denoting origin (see -ish 1 )
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