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scrios

scrios

Irish

Noun

scrios m (genitive singular scriosta)

  1. destruction, ruin
  2. scrapings, parings; light covering
  3. verbal noun of scrios

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish scrisaid (scrape; erase; destroy) (compare Scottish Gaelic sgrios (destroy, ruin, annihilate, etc.)), from Old Irish scris, verbal noun of sceirtid (strips, peels or scrapes off).

Verb

scrios (present analytic scriosann, future analytic scriosfaidh, verbal noun scriosadh, past participle scriosta)

  1. scrape off, tear off; (of a tree) bark
  2. scratch out, erase, delete
  3. destroy, ruin
Conjugation