scrios
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
scrios m (genitive singular scriosta or scris)
- destruction, ruin
- scrapings, parings; light covering
- verbal noun of scrios
Declension edit
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
scrios (present analytic scriosann, future analytic scriosfaidh, verbal noun scriosadh, past participle scriosta)
- scrape off, tear off; (of a tree) bark
- scratch out, erase, delete
- destroy, ruin
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scrios”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 38
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 76