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scaip

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish scabaid.[2]

Verb

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scaip (present analytic scaipeann, future analytic scaipfidh, verbal noun scaipeadh, past participle scaipthe) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. to disperse, scatter, spread, strew
  2. to broadcast (a story, rumor etc.), circulate, disseminate, promulgate, put about
  3. to disperse, dissipate, break up (of a crowd etc.)
  4. to dispel (drive away by scattering)
  5. to disperse, lift (of fog)
  6. to squander

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ scaip”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scaipid, scapaid, scabaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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