Where does “seanchaidh” come from?

seanchaidh (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Old Irish senchaid, from Old Irish -id, from Proto-Celtic -īti, from Proto-Indo-European -éyeti, from Proto-Indo-European -yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

seanchaidh (Scottish Gaelic): storyteller

Definitions

  1. storyteller

Ancestry of “seanchaidh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishsenchaidreciter of lore, historian
2Old Irish-idForms a noun of agency
3Proto-Celtic-īti—
4Proto-Indo-European-éyetiForms causative imperfective verbs from roots;...
5Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

Words derived from “seanchaidh”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yeti →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éyeti →Every word from Old Irish -id →
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