skunnaan

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish scailleagán. The -ll- was assimilated by final -n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skʊˈnɔːn/

Noun

skunnaan

1. A tall, clever person.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68