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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish scaindred (“scattering, dispersing”), verbal noun of scaindrid, from scainder (“fight, skirmish”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
scanradh m (genitive singular scanraidh)
- scattering, dispersion
- fright, scare
Declension
References
- ^ “scanradh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scaindred, scandrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 226, page 114
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 246, page 89
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