sgeul
Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]sgeul m (genitive singular sgéil, nominative plural sgeulta)
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish scél (compare Irish scéal, Manx skeeal), from Proto-Celtic *skʷetlom (compare Welsh chwedl, a loanword from Proto-Goidelic), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sgeul m (genitive singular sgeòil, plural sgeòil or sgeulan)
- story, tale
- news, information, tidings, report
- (informal) sign (of somebody or something)
- A bheil sgeul oirre? ― Is there any sign of her?
Synonyms
[edit]- (story): stòiridh
- (news): naidheachd
Derived terms
[edit]- eadar dà sgeul (“by the way”)
- eadar-sgeul (“episode”)
- fionnsgeul (“legend”)
- sgeulachd (“story, tale, romance; legend, fable, saga”)
- uirsgeul (“legend, myth; fable, folktale; fiction”)
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
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