skeddan

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish scatán,[1] cognate with Scottish Gaelic sgadan, Irish scadán and Welsh ysgadan. All could be related to Old English sċeadd (modern English shad), along with Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”), but the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skedan/, [ˈskɛðan]

Noun

skeddan m (genitive singular skeddan, plural skeddanyn)

  1. herring

Mutation

Mutation of skeddan
radical lenition eclipsis
skeddan unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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