Etymograph

English

Slumbay

Slumbay comes from Scottish Gaelic Slumba.

  1. Scottish GaelicmodernSlumba
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Slomba
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1883Slumbay

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Scottish GaelicmodernSlumba
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Slomba
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1883Slumbay

Earliest quotation: 1883, Alexander Mackenzie, Lochcarron: “While these things were going on in the quiet…”

The story

Possibly influenced by bay.

Every English word from Scottish Gaelic Slumba

Today it means

name A crofting township which now forms the southern section of Lochcarron, on the north side of Loch Carron in Wester Ross, Highland council area, Scotland.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Scottish Gaelic Slumba / Slumbay

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