scáth
Irish (Donegal)
/sˠkɑː/, /ˈsˠkæː/
noun
Definitions
- shadow, shade
- umbrella something that covers a wide range of concepts, ideas, etc., mantle anything that covers or conceals something else
- horror, dread
- shyness, timidity
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish scáth (shadow, spectre, shade, reflexion) inherited from Proto-Celtic *skātom (shadow) derived from Proto-Indo-European *skot-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*skot-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Scáthach English
- antishadow English
- beshade English
- beshadow English
- chromoshadow English
- enshadow English
- eyeshadow English
- foreshadow English
- nonshadow English
- outshadow English
- overshadow English
- rainshadow English
- shadow English
- shadowable English
- shadowban English
- shadowboxer English
- shadowboxing English
- shadowcast English
- shadowcasting English
- shadower English
- shadowest English
- shadoweth English
- shadowgram English
- shadowgraph English
- shadowish English
- shadowland English
- shadowless English
- shadowlike English
- shadowy English
- supershadow English
- unshadow English
- *skeh₃tom Proto-Indo-European
- *skot- Proto-Indo-European
- *skadwaz Proto-Germanic
- sceadu Old English
- schadowe Middle English
- cruth Irish
- scáthach Irish
- scáthaigh Irish
- scáthchruth Irish
- scáthán Irish
- cysgod Welsh
- ysgod Welsh
- scáth Old Irish
- sgàth Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- scaa Manx
- scaan Manx
- *skātom Proto-Celtic
- scáthán Middle Irish
- (y)sgawd Middle Welsh