scaa

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Manx

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish scáth, from Proto-Celtic *skātu, from Proto-Indo-European *skot-.

Pronunciation

Noun

scaa m (genitive singular scaa, plural scaaghyn)

  1. shield
  2. shadow, shade
  3. shyness, timidity
  4. cover, hood
  5. screen
  6. shadiness
  7. fence, fencing
  8. guise, pretence
  9. apparition, ghost
  10. a thin, meek or feeble person

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
scaa unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.