scilling
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish scilling, scillic, borrowed from Old Norse skillingr, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
scilling f (genitive scillinge, plural scillingí, plural after numbers scillinge)
- shilling (historical coin; modern currency)
Declension
Declension of scilling
Second declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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- Alternative plural: scilleacha (Cois Fharraige)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “scilling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Greene, D. (1973), “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75-82
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “scilling, scillic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 83
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