scilling
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish scilling, scillic, borrowed from Old Norse skillingr, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Cork) IPA(key): /ˈʃcɪlʲɪɲ/
- (Kerry) IPA(key): /ˈʃcɪlʲənʲ/
- (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈʃcɪl̠ʲən̠ʲ/
Noun
[edit]scilling f (genitive scillinge, plural scillingí, plural after numbers scillinge)
- shilling (historical coin; modern currency)
Declension
[edit]Declension of scilling
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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- Alternative plural: scilleacha (Cois Fharraige)
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scilling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Greene, D. (1973) “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress[1], Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75-82
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scilling, scillic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 83
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *skillingaz
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sċilling m
Usage notes
[edit]The shilling was equivalent to five pennies in the kingdom of Wessex and four in the kingdom of Mercia. The Normans later introduced the standard of twelve pennies per shilling.
Declension
[edit]Declension of sċilling (strong a-stem)
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | sċilling | sċillingas |
accusative | sċilling | sċillingas |
genitive | sċillinges | sċillinga |
dative | sċillinge | sċillingum |
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scilling”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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