sguir

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s̪kuɾʲ/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): [s̪kʉð]

Verb

sguir (past sguir, future sguiridh, verbal noun sgur, past participle sguirte)

  1. stop, cease, desist, terminate (usually of actions other than movement)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sguir”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*skara-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 340
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