sgreubh

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. . 1982.

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