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)

  1. block, lump, hunk
  2. log (of wood)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgonn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page sgonn
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