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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Irish seanchaí, Manx shennaghee.
Noun
seanchaidh m (genitive singular seanchaidh, plural seanchaidhean)
- storyteller
Descendants
Further reading
- “seanchaidh” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
- “seanchaidh”, in LearnGaelic - Dictionary, 2021
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “seanchaidh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language