++easga

++easga
the moon (a name for it surviving in Braemar last century), Old Irish ésca, ésce, $$oesca, *eid-skio-; from root eid, îd, as in Latin idus, the ides, "full light", i.e. full moon (Stokes): *encscaio-, Sanskrit pñjas, light, Greek $$Gféggos, light (Strachan).

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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