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Etymology
Borrowed from Irish sách (“satisfied”), from Old Irish sáithech, sáthach.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
saaughe
- comfortable, at ease[3]
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Myne saaughe.- Very comfortable.
References
- ^ Raymond Hickey (2007) “The antiquarian temptation: Forth and Bargy”, in Irish English: History and present-day forms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
- ^ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review, volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 160
- ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 66