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Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scrūtor.
Pronunciation
Verb
scrútaid (conjunct ·scrúta, verbal noun scrútan, scrútain, scrútad)
- to examine, to investigate
- to consider
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91c1
No scrútain-se, in tan no mbíinn isnaib fochaidib, dús in retarscar cairde ṅDǽ ⁊ a remcaissiu, ⁊ ní tucus-sa insin, in ru·etarscar fa naic.- I used to consider, when I was in the tribulations, whether the covenant of God and his providence had departed, and I didn't understand that, whether it had departed or not.
Inflection
Simple, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
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