Scots word for blessing, protecting or consecrating
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Saining is a Scots word for blessing, protecting, or consecrating.[1]Sain is cognate with the Irish and Scottish Gaelic seun and sian and the Old Irish sén - "a protective charm."[2][3][4]
^Ross, David and Gavin D. Smith, Scots-English/English-Scots Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary), 1998, p102.
^Black, Ronald, The Gaelic Otherworld, 2005, p136-7, 211
^Carmichael, Alexander, Carmina Gadelica Volume II, 1900, p26-37
^Macbain, Etymological Dictionary of Scottish-Gaelic, 1998, p309.
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