caibe
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Closely resembles Welsh caib (“mattock”), but deriving the -b- in both Gaelic and Welsh from a common inherited source is difficult. Given that the Gaelic word is not found in Irish, it is possible to postulate that the Gaelic word is a borrowing from a Brittonic substrate language.
Noun
[edit]caibe m (genitive singular caibe, plural caibeannan or caibeachan)
- spade, mattock
- the iron part of a cas-chrom or of any delving instrument
- blade of a spade or turf-cutter