sgeul
Irish
Noun
sgeul m (genitive singular sgéil, nominative plural sgeulta)
- Obsolete spelling of scéal
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish scél (compare Irish scéal, Manx skeeal), from Proto-Celtic *skʷetlom (compare Welsh chwedl, a loanword from Proto-Goidelic), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Noun
sgeul m (genitive singular sgeòil, plural sgeòil or sgeulan)
- story, tale
- news, information, tidings, report
- (informal) sign (of somebody or something)
- A bheil sgeul oirre? ― Is there any sign of her?
Synonyms
- (story): stòiridh
- (news): naidheachd
Derived terms
- eadar dà sgeul (“by the way”)
- eadar-sgeul (“episode”)
- fionnsgeul (“legend”)
- sgeulachd (“story, tale, romance; legend, fable, saga”)
- uirsgeul (“legend, myth; fable, folktale; fiction”)