fasgadh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish foscad (“shadow; protection”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *uɸo-skātu. Cognate with Welsh gwasgod (“shade; shelter”).

Noun

fasgadh m (genitive fasgaidh, plural fasgaidhean)

  1. shelter, protection

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foscad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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