sgrath
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Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Irish scrath; see Old Irish scaraid (“to tear apart”).
Noun[edit]
sgrath f (genitive singular sgratha, plural sgrathan)
- outer skin or rind of anything, husk, peel, crust
- bark (of a tree)
- layer of an onion
- turf, green sod, divot, as used for covering roofs of houses
- horror, dread
- rust
- scale (balance)
- rough handling
- long rhyme
- pull, tug
- what covers the kiln of grain
- greensward
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
sgrath m
Verb[edit]
sgrath (past sgrath, future sgrathaidh, verbal noun sgrathadh, past participle sgrathte)
Further reading[edit]
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgrath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page sgrath