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): /s̪kʲian/

Noun

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

  1. knife

Derived terms

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “sgian”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “scían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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