sheck
Yola
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish sioc (“frost”), from Middle Irish sicc.[1]
Noun
sheck
- ice[2]
References
- Raymond Hickey (1988), “A lost Middle English dialect”, in Jacek Fisiak, editor, Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs; 37), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 263
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 67