Scottish Gaelic
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Etymology
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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]
sgonn m (genitive singular sgoinn, plural sgonnan)
- block, lump, hunk
- log (of wood)
References
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- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgonn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page sgonn