sàs

Scottish Gaelic edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /saːs/

Etymology edit

From Early Irish sás ‘snare, trap, noose’, from Middle Irish sén ‘trap (esp. for catching birds)’, from Proto-Celtic *segno-, *sogno- ‘trap, snare’, from Proto-Indo-European *seg- ‘attach, touch, sow’ (semantic development from ‘attach’ to ‘catch’, hence ‘snare’).

Verb edit

sàs (past shàs, future sàsaidh, verbal noun sàsadh, past participle sàsta)

seize, grasp
adhere to

Derived terms edit

an sàs (“caught/stuck in/on; engaged/involved in”, adverb)