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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cenn (“skin”), with the added diminutive suffix -án and the initial consonants replaced with that of scamall (“cloud”), which also meant something like "membrane".[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
scannán m (genitive singular scannáin, nominative plural scannáin)
- (anatomy) film
- membrane; pellicle, velum
- caul
- (photography) film
- (cinematography) film, motion picture, movie
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References
- ^ Greene, David (1975) “Varia III”, in Ériu, volume 26, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 175–181
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scannán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scannán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language