sgadan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish scatán; cognate with Irish scadán and Welsh ysgadan. All could be related to Old English sceadd (modern English shad), along with Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”), but the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈs̪kat̪an/[1][2]

Noun

sgadan m (genitive singular sgadain, plural sgadain)

  1. herring

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgadan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
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