sgian

Irish

Noun

sgian f (genitive singular sgine, nominative plural sgeana)

1. Obsolete spelling of scian.

Declension

Declension of sgian

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative sgian sgeana Vocative a sgian a sgeana Genitive sgine sgeana Dative sgian sgin (archaic, dialectal) sgeana

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an sgian na sgeana Genitive na sgine na sgeana Dative leis an sgian leis an sgin (archaic, dialectal) don sgian don sgin (archaic, dialectal) leis na sgeana

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish scían, from Proto-Celtic *skiyenā, from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪kʲiən/

Noun

sgian f (dative singular sgithinn, genitive singular sgeine or sgithinn or sgithinne, plural sgeanan)

1. knife

Derived terms

• sgian-dubh

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “sgian”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language