sgioba

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse skip (“ship”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Cognate with Irish scib.

Noun

sgioba f (plural sgioban, plural sgiobaidhean)

  1. crew (of a boat)
  2. team (in sport, a competition etc)

Further reading
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgioba”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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