sguir
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Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish scuirid (“unyoke, desist”)[1], from Proto-Celtic *skorīti, causative of *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerH-.[2] Compare Irish scoir. Related to the verb sgar.
Verb[edit]
sguir (past sguir, future sguiridh, verbal noun sgur, past participle sguirte)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- stad (of movement)
References[edit]
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sguir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skara-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 340