scían

See also: scian and ścian

Old Irish

Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *skiyenā, from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut”).

Noun

scían f

1. knife

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: scian
• Manx: skynn
• Scottish Gaelic: sgian

References

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