scanraigh

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish scannraid (disperse, scatter, shatter)[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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scanraigh (present analytic scanraíonn, future analytic scanróidh, verbal noun scanrú, past participle scanraithe)

  1. (literary, intransitive) rout; become scattered; break asunder
  2. (transitive) scare, frighten
  3. (intransitive) take fright

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “scannruiġim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 601
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scaindrid, scandraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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