scrios

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish scris (tearing; erasing; destruction) (compare Scottish Gaelic sgrios (destruction, ruin, annihilation, etc.)), verbal noun of sceirtid (strips, peels or scrapes off).

Noun

scrios m (genitive singular scriosta or scris)

  1. destruction, ruin
  2. scrapings, parings; light covering
  3. verbal noun of scrios
Declension
Declension of scrios (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative scrios
vocative a scrios
genitive scriosta
dative scrios
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an scrios
genitive an scriosta
dative leis an scrios
don scrios

Alternative declension:

Declension of scrios (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative scrios
vocative a scris
genitive scris
dative scrios
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an scrios
genitive an scris
dative leis an scrios
don scrios

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish scrisaid (scrape; erase; destroy) (compare Scottish Gaelic sgrios (destroy, ruin, annihilate, etc.)), from Old Irish scris, verbal noun of sceirtid (strips, peels or scrapes off).

Verb

scrios (present analytic scriosann, future analytic scriosfaidh, verbal noun scriosadh, past participle scriosta)

  1. scrape off, tear off; (of a tree) bark
  2. scratch out, erase, delete
  3. destroy, ruin
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