tionnscainn

a beginning, devising, tionnsgal, ingenuity, Irish tionnscnadh, a beginning, device, plotting, tionsgiodal, managing, industry, Old Irish tinscnaim (= to-ind-scannaim), I begin, tindscetal, a beginning, root sqend, start, spring, Latin scando, ascend, Sanskrit skandati, hurry, spring. The Welsh has cy-chwyn, ortus (*sqenô). The form -scetal is for sqen-t- (?).