sgonn
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t- (“damage, harm”)[1], see also Ancient Greek ἀσκηθής (askēthḗs, “intact, safe, sound”, literally “without damage”), Proto-Germanic *skaþô.[2]
Noun
sgonn m (genitive singular sgoinn, plural sgonnan)
- block, lump, hunk
- log (of wood)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “sgonn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page sgonn