iasg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish íasc, from Proto-Celtic *ɸēskos, from Proto-Indo-European *peisk- (compare English fish, Latin piscis). The Brythonic words (Welsh pysgodyn, Breton pesk) are loanwords from Latin.

Noun

iasg m (genitive singular èisg, plural èisg or iasgan)

fish
iasg air chladh ― fish at spawning

Derived terms

iasg dubh (“salmon on its return from the sea”)
Na h-Iasgan (“Pisces”)
Talamh an Èisg (“Newfoundland”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
“íasc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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