scoth

• IPA^(key): /sˠkɔ(h)/

From Old Irish scoth (“flower, tuft”).

scoth f (genitive singular scotha, nominative plural scothanna)

1. flower
2. pick, choice
3. tuft, bunch
4. arrangement, style

• mínscoth (“knapweed”)
• scothán (“bush, bushy top; bushy tail”)
• scoth-aisteoir (“cinema-star”)

• → Yola: scoth

From Middle Irish scoth, from Old Irish scoth (“point, edge”).

scoth f (genitive singular scotha, nominative plural scothanna)

1. point, tip
2. projection, ridge, splinter (of rock)
3. reef

   Synonym: scairbh

4. (in the plural) scree

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 scoth ‘flower’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 scoth ‘point, edge’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scoth”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “scoth”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “scoth”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /skoθ/

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *skeHt- (“to spring, to leap”), compare the cognates listed at Latin scateo (“to flow forth, bubble”).

scoth f

1. flower, blossom
2. lock, tress, tuft (of hair)
3. flower, pick, choice, best part
4. hero, noble one, scion

• scothach

• Irish: scoth

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgoth”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

From Proto-Celtic *skutā, from Proto-Indo-European *skewt- (“to cut”).

scoth f

1. point, edge (of bladed weapon)

• Middle Irish: scoth
  • Irish: scoth
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: scothaid (“to cut, lop off”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

scoth f

1. word, saying, speech

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 scoth ‘flower’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 scoth ‘point, edge’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 scoth ‘word, saying’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Irish scoth (“pick, choice”).

• IPA^(key): /skɔh/

scoth

1. The best of the flax; and hence a fine shirt is so termed.
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 84:

     Zitch vaperreen, an shimmereen, fan ee-daff ee aar scoth!

     Such vapouring and glittering when stript in their shirts!

• shoorth (“shirt”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 66