sgioba

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse skip (“ship”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Cognate with Irish scib.

Noun

sgioba f (plural sgioban, plural sgiobaidhean)

1. crew (of a boat)
2. team (in sport, a competition etc)

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgioba”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN