scaraid

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠkaɾˠədʲ/

scaraid

1. (Munster, archaic) third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of scar

From Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Cognate with Welsh ysgaru (“to separate”) and with Breton skarzh (“empty”); and via Indo-European with Old English sċieran (Modern English shear), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin carō (“flesh”), Lithuanian ski̇̀rti (“separate”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈskarɨðʲ]

scaraid (conjunct ·scara, verbal noun scarad)

1. to sever, tear asunder
2. to part (with), separate (from) (+ fri)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^b19

     Is súaichnid, manid·chretid esséirge Críst et mortuorum, níb·noíbfea for n-ires in chruth sin et níb·scara fri bar pecthu.

     It is obvious, unless you pl believe in the resurrection of Christ and the dead, your faith will not sanctify you in that way and does not separate you from your sins.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24^a4

     No·scarinn friu.

     I parted with them.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29^d8

     Ba méite limm ní scartha friumm.

     It would be important to me that you sg might not part from me.

3. to unfold, spread

• Irish: scar
• Scottish Gaelic: sgar
• Manx: scarr

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scaraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language