Skye Camanachd Skye Camanachd Skye Camanachd is a shinty team from the Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland. It plays in the Premier Division and has a reserve team in North Division One, as well as a Ladies team in the WCA National Division One and a Ladies reserve team in the WCA Development League. The club is based at Pairc nan Laoch, Portree.u Skye had a strong tradition of playing shinty on the Old Celtic New Year, and there were a Portree Club and a Bernisdale Club in existence in the 1880s. However, Skye Camanachd in its present form came into being
Etymology of Skye isle with the mythic figure of Queen Scáthach. The problems with the proposed Gaelic etymologies can be summed up as follows. Firstly, the Gaelic word for "winged" is "sgiathach" and "sgiathanach" is not attested in Gaelic except in the place name and the ethnonym "Sgiathanach" "person from Skye". Secondly, the recorded pronunciations all point towards a clear preceding the "-ach" ending: , , or . This means the form "Sgiathanach" is very unlikely to be based on the Gaelic plural of "wing" ("sgiathan"), which contains a schwa in the last syllable () and would represent a highly unusual adjectival form