sennachy
sennachy is the alternative form of seannachie.
Meaning of seannachie
Noun
seannachie (plural seannachies)
- A bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
- Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil - why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated - they are all of the tribe of Macfungus - mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of...1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 65
Forms of sennachy
| plural | sennachies |
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Questions about sennachy
- What is sennachy the alternative form of?
- Sennachy is the alternative form of seannachie.
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