sgéinnidh

sgéinnidh
twine, flax or hep thread; cf. Irish sgainne, a skein or clue of thread. The Scottish skiny, pack thread (pronounced skeenyie), is apparently from Gaelic; English skein is from Middle English skeine, Old French escaigne. Skeat derives the English from Gaelic. The Gaelic alone might be referred to *skein, from s$$?hein, s$$ghoin, rope, string, Lithuanian geinis, string, Latin fûnis, Greek $$Gshoi$$nnos.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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  • Skein — Skein, n. [OE. skeyne, OF. escaigne, F. [ e]cagne, probably of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. sgainne, Gael. sgeinnidh thread, small twine; or perhaps the English word is immediately from Celtic.] 1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • skein — The coiled threads of chromatin seen in the prophase of mitosis. [Gael. sgeinnidh, hempen thread] choroid s. SYN: choroid enlargement …   Medical dictionary

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