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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish scaindred (“scattering, dispersing”), verbal noun of scaindrid, from scainder (“fight, skirmish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
scanradh m (genitive singular scanraidh)
- scattering, dispersion
- fright, scare
Declension
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Further reading
- “scanradh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “scaindred, scandrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “scannraḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 601
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scanradh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 89
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 16