scaitheamh
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editA variant form of scaitheadh (“cutting, lopping off”), from Middle Irish scothad, verbal noun of scothaid (“to cut, lop off”), from Middle Irish scoth (“point, edge”), from Proto-Celtic *skutā, from Proto-Indo-European *skewt- (“to cut”) (compare Lithuanian skùsti (“to shave”)).
Pronunciation
edit- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /sˠka/
Noun
editscaitheamh m (genitive singular scaithimh, nominative plural scaití)
Declension
editDeclension of scaitheamh
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editFurther reading
edit- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skutā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 344
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scatham”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “scaṫaṁ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 603
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scaitheamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN