- sgreubh
- dry up, crack by drought, sgreath (M`A., who has sgreoth, parch as cloth); cf. English shrivel, from a Scandinavian source - base skriv-, Old Northumbrian screpa, pine, Norwegian skrypa, waste; or Scottish scrae, dry, withered person, old withered shoe, Norwegian skrae.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.