sgadan
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish scatán; cognate with Irish scadán and Welsh ysgadan. All could be related to Old English sceadd (modern English shad), along with Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”), but the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsgadan m (genitive singular sgadain, plural sgadain)
Further reading
edit- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgadan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN