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scinn

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sceindid,[1] from Proto-Celtic *skanndeti (whence Welsh ysgain), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (to jump) (whence Sanskrit स्कन्द् (skand, to jump, leap), Latin scandō (to ascend, mount).[2]

Verb

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scinn (present analytic scinneann, future analytic scinnfidh, verbal noun scinneadh, past participle scinnte) (intransitive)

  1. to spring (forth), gush (forth)
  2. to start (jerk suddenly in surprise), shy (jump back in fear)
  3. to dart (fly or pass swiftly), fly off, fly out, dash, shoot (move very quickly and suddenly), scurry
  4. to depart suddenly, vanish [with ó ‘from’]
    scinn chun siúilto rush off
  5. to escape [with ó ‘from’]
    Scinn an focal uaim.
    The word escaped my lips.
  6. to glance (strike and fly off in an oblique direction to dart aside), glance off [with de]
  7. to graze (rub or touch lightly the surface of in passing) [with de]
  8. to skim (glide along near the surface)

Conjugation

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Alternative verbal noun: sceinm

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sceinnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skan-n-d-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 339–40

Further reading

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