sleamhainn

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • sleamhuinn

Etymology

From Old Irish slemon, from Proto-Celtic *slimnos, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smear”). Cognate with Irish sleamhain, Manx shliawin, Welsh llyfn (“smooth”), Old Breton limn, English slip.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sleamhainn (comparative sleamhna)

  1. slippery

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ Rev. C. M. Robertson (1902) “Skye Gaelic”, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XXIII: 1898-99‎[1], Gaelic Society of Inverness, pages 54-88
  4. ^ Wentworth, Roy (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN

Further reading

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sleamhainn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[2], Stirling, →ISBN
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