scadán

From Old Irish scatán; cognate with Scottish Gaelic sgadan and Welsh ysgadan. All could be related to Old English sċeadd (modern English shad), along with Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”), but the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠkəˈd̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠkad̪ˠɑːnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠkad̪ˠanˠ/

scadán m (genitive singular scadáin, nominative plural scadáin)

1. herring

• “scadán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “scatán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “scadán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “sgadan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21