scamall

Irish

Etymology

From a Hiberno-Latin diminutive of Latin squama (“animal scale”).[1] The semantic evolution would be something like "scale" > "film, membrane" (whence also the meaning "webbing") > "eye occlusion" > "cloud".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠkamˠəl̪ˠ/

Noun

scamall m (genitive singular scamaill, nominative plural scamaill)

  1. (weather) cloud
    Synonym: néal
  2. web (between toes)

Declension

Declension of scamall (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative scamall scamaill
vocative a scamaill a scamalla
genitive scamaill scamall
dative scamall scamaill
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an scamall na scamaill
genitive an scamaill na scamall
dative leis an scamall
don scamall 		leis na scamaill

Derived terms

  • scamallach (“cloudy, clouded; webbed, palmate”, adjective)
  • scamallacht f (“cloudiness”)
  • scamallach m (“web-footed bird, palmiped”)
  • scamallaigh (“cloud (over), mist, obscure”, verb)

References

  1. ^ Greene, David (1975) “Varia III”, in Ériu‎[1], volume 26, Royal Irish Academy, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 175–181

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