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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish sceach.
Noun
sceach (plural sceaches)
- A whitethorn, hawthorn or similar bush.
2019, “I love my juggernaut”, in The Pothole Song Album, performed by Richie Kavanagh:I'm in the county Offaly and I'm awfully sorry now. I broke the mirrors of me cab and I'd like to tell you how. With sceachs, boughs and bushes rubbing off me load, I wish the county council would trim along the road.
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish scé (“thornbush, whitethorn”), sometimes declined as an -iā-stem or a dental stem (genitive sciad), but also as a guttural stem, forming the genitive sciach. The dental stem may be original, judging from Welsh ysbyddad (“hawthorn, thornbush”), in which case the ancestor was Proto-Celtic *skʷiyats.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
sceach f (genitive singular sceiche, nominative plural sceacha)
- whitethorn, hawthorn
- more generally, brier, bramble-bush, thornbush
- prickly, quarrelsome, person
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References
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ysbyddad”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 320, page 204; reprinted 2017
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 352, page 121
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