suaineadh

twisting, rope-twisting anything, a line for twisting round anything, Early Irish, Old Irish súanem, g. suaneman, funis: *sognemon-, root sug, soug, Breton sug, trace, Welsh syg, chain, trace; Romance soga, rope, Italian soga, rope, leather band, Sp. soga, a linear measure, Port. soga, rush rope, Churw$$"lwsch saga. Stokes finally refers súanem to a stem-root *sogno- beside segno- (whence Early Irish sén, a net for catching birds, gin, root segh, hold, English sail), Lithuanian segù, fasten, saga, sledge. This divorces suaineadh from Gaelic suaicean and sùgan, q.v. Cf. Welsh hwynyn, hoenyn, a hair from a horse's tail, gin.