sgian

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Irish

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Noun

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sgian f (genitive singular sgine, nominative plural sgeana)

  1. Obsolete spelling of scian.

Declension

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish scían, from Proto-Celtic *skiyenā, from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (to cut).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sgian f (dative singular sgithinn, genitive singular sgeine or sgithinn or sgithinne, plural sgeanan)

  1. knife

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “sgian”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language