isbean

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse íspen or speni.[1][2] Compare Irish ispín.

Noun

isbean m (genitive singular isbein, plural isbeanan)

  1. sausage

Mutation

Mutation of isbean
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
isbean n-isbean h-isbean t-isbean

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “isbean”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 219
  2. ^ Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “í-spen”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 319

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “isbean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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