sheck

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish sioc (“frost”), from Middle Irish sicc.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɛk/

Noun

sheck

  1. ice[2]

References
  1. 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
  2. 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 67
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