seanchaidh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• seanachaidh

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Irish seanchaí, Manx shennaghee.

Noun

seanchaidh m (genitive singular seanchaidh, plural seanchaidhean)

1. storyteller

Descendants

• → Middle Scots: schenachy
  • Scots: shenachie

Further reading

• “seanchaidh” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
• “seanchaidh”, in LearnGaelic - Dictionary‎^[1], 2021
• Edward Dwelly (1911) “seanchaidh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language