seanchaidh

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms
  • seanachaidh

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Irish seanchaí, Manx shennaghee.

Noun

seanchaidh m (genitive singular seanchaidh, plural seanchaidhean)

  1. storyteller

Descendants
  • → Scots: shenachie

Further reading
  • “seanchaidh” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
  • “seanchaidh” in LearnGaelic - Dictionary.
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seanchaidh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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