snaidh

snaidh
hew, chip, shape, Irish snoighim, snaidhim (O'D.), Early Irish snaidim, snaisi, peeled, Welsh naddu, hew, chip, cut. Old Cornish nedim, ascia (Welsh neddyf, neddai, adze, Breton eze, neze), Middle Breton ezeff: *snadô; German schnat, border, schnate, a young twig, Swiss schnätzen, cut, Swab. schnatte, an incision in wood or flesh (Bez. apud Stokes). Strachan suggests the root sknad, Greek $$Gknadállw, scratch, $$Gknwdw/nn, tooth (see cnàmh). Hence snas, regularity.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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