scioból

Irish

Alternative forms

sgiobál, sgioból (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Brythonic (compare Welsh ysgubor, Middle Cornish skyber, Breton skiber), from Latin scōpa.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ʃcɪˈbˠoːl̪ˠ/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈʃcɪbˠoːl̪ˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃcɪbˠɔl̪ˠ/, /ˈʃcɪbˠal̪ˠ/[1]

Noun

scioból m (genitive singular sciobóil, nominative plural sciobóil)

barn (building)

Declension

Declension of scioból

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scioból	sciobóil
Vocative	a sciobóil	a sciobóla
Genitive	sciobóil	scioból
Dative	scioból	sciobóil

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an scioból	na sciobóil
Genitive	an sciobóil	na scioból
Dative	leis an scioból don scioból	leis na sciobóil

Further reading

“scioból” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sciból”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
“scioból” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 609.
"scioból" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

References

Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 14

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