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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish uindsend, the genitive of uindes (“ash tree”).
Noun
uinnseann m (genitive singular uinnsinn)
- The ash tree
Seach an Darach 's an t-Uinnseann, 's iad geàrrt' dhan làr...- For the oak and the Ash, they are cut to the ground...
- The wood of the ash tree
Derived terms
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “uinnseann”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uinnius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language