seangan

See also: seangán

Scottish Gaelic

From Middle Irish sengán, from seng (“thin, slender”) +‎ -án. By surface analysis, seang (“thin, slender”) +‎ -an.

(Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɲẽɣan/, /ˈʃɲĩɣan/, /ˈʃɲɤ̃ɣan/^[1] (corresponding to the form sneaghan)
(North Uist, North Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛ̃ɣan/^[2]
(Skye) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛ̃ŋan/^[3]
(Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɲɛ̃ɣan/^[4] (corresponding to the form sneaghan)
(South Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛkɑn/^[3]

seangan m (genitive singular seangain, plural seangain or seanganan)

^ Oftedal, M. (1956), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎^[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Holmer, Nils M. (1938), Studies on Argyllshire Gaelic, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-A.-B., page 208
^ Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 29