schenachy

schenachy (plural schenachies)

1. Alternative form of seannachie.

• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SCHENACHY”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 250.
• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SHANACHY, sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, pages 353-354.

From Irish seanchaí or Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, from Old Irish senchaid.

schenachy

1. seannachie

• > Scots: shenachie (inherited)

• “schenachy, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.