seanchaidh

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Scottish Gaelic

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Irish seanchaí, Manx shennaghee.

Noun

[edit]

seanchaidh m (genitive singular seanchaidh, plural seanchaidhean)

  1. storyteller

Descendants

[edit]
  • Middle Scots: schenachy

Further reading

[edit]
  • seanchaidh” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
  • “seanchaidh”, in LearnGaelic - Dictionary[1], 2021
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seanchaidh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language