escong

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• escmug
• esconga
• escuma

Etymology

Possibly from esc (“water”) + Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”).

Noun

escong f

1. eel

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: eascann
• Manx: astan
• Scottish Gaelic: easgann

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “escong, esconga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language