seanchaidh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • seanachaidh

Etymology

From Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Irish seanchaí, Manx shennaghee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛnɛxɪ/

Noun

seanchaidh m (genitive singular seanchaidh, plural seanchaidhean)

  1. storyteller

Descendants

Further reading

  • “seanchaidh” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
  • “seanchaidh”, in LearnGaelic - Dictionary‎[1], 2021
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seanchaidh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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