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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish scatán; cognate with Irish scadán and Welsh ysgadan. All could be related to Old English sceadd (modern English shad), along with Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”), but the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.
Pronunciation
Noun
sgadan m (genitive singular sgadain, plural sgadain)
- herring
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgadan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN