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Old Irish
Etymology
Originally disyllabic scïan. From Proto-Celtic *skiyenā, from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut”). According to some it is borrowed from Latin s(a)cēna (“sacrificial axe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
scían f
- knife
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ 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), 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
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