- sgriach
- I.sgreuch, sgriacha scream, screech, Irish sgréach, Early Irish screch: *skreikâ, root skrei, as in sgread, q.v. English screech, shriek are from the same root (not stem). Welsh ysqrêch, seems borrowed from the EnglishII.a score, scratch (Dial.); cf. stríoch.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.