sgeamh

I

yelp, Irish sceamh, Early Irish scem, scemdacht; cf. sgeamh. Also Gaelic sgiamh, sgiamhail, to which Ernault compares Middle Breton hueual, cry like a fox.

II

severe or cutting language, Irish sgeamhaim, I scold, reproach: *skemo-; Norse skamma, to shame, to scold, English shame, sham? The word sgeamh also means "a disgust" in Gaelic; also, according to M`A., "a speck on the eye", "membrane". Also Irish (and Gaelic?) sgeamh, polypody.