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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish scellán (“pip, seed, fruit stone”),[1] a diminutive of scell (“grain, kernel”) + -án.[2]
Noun
sgeallan m (genitive singular sgeallain, plural sgeallanan)
- mustard (plant)
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scellán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgeallan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN