scían
Old Irish
editEtymology
editOriginally disyllabic scïan. From Proto-Celtic *skiyenā, from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut”).[1] According to some it is borrowed from Latin s(a)cēna (“sacrificial axe”).[2][3]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editscían f
Inflection
editFeminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | scíanL | scínL | scénaH |
Vocative | scíanL | scínL | scénaH |
Accusative | scínN | scínL | scénaH |
Genitive | scéineH, scine | scíanL, scén | scíanN, scén |
Dative | scínL | scénaib | scénaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) “scian”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume R S, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page S-42f.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “secō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 254 fn. 121
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skey-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish feminine nouns
- Old Irish ā-stem nouns
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- sga:Cutlery