scían

See also: scian and ścian

Old Irish[edit]

Originally 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]

scían f

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	scían^L	scín^L	scéna^H
Vocative	scían^L	scín^L	scéna^H
Accusative	scín^N	scín^L	scéna^H
Genitive	scéine^H, scine	scían^L, scén	scían^N, scén
Dative	scín^L	scénaib	scénaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

^ 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