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Irish
Etymology
A variant form of scaitheadh (“cutting, lopping off”), from Middle Irish scothad, verbal noun of scothaid (“to cut, lop off”), from Middle Irish scoth (“point, edge”), from Proto-Celtic *skutā, from Proto-Indo-European *skewt- (“to cut”) (compare Lithuanian skùsti (“to shave”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
scaitheamh m (genitive singular scaithimh, nominative plural scaití)
- while, spell (indefinite period of time)
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Further reading
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skutā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 344
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scatham”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “scaṫaṁ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 603
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scaitheamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN