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From Middle Irish scemgal (“clashing, clanging”).[2]
sceamhaíl f (genitive singular sceamhíola)
- verbal noun of sceamh
- yelping
- squealing
- yapping
- ^ “sceamhaíl”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scemgal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 55, page 29
