Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t- (damage, harm),[1] see also Ancient Greek ἀσκηθής (askēthḗs, intact, safe, sound, literally without damage), Proto-Germanic *skaþô.[2]

Noun edit

sgonn m (genitive singular sgoinn, plural sgonnan)

  1. block, lump, hunk
  2. log (of wood)

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgonn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page sgonn