skerry

英語

詞源

源自設得蘭、奧克尼低地蘇格蘭語 skerry，源自古諾爾斯語 sker (參見丹麥語 skær、書面挪威語 skjær)。

發音

Skerry (small rocky island).

• (英國，美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈskɛɹi/

  • 音頻 (英式)：

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• 韻部：-ɛri
• 同音詞：scary (有Mary-marry-merry合併的方言)

名詞

skerry (複數 skerries)

1. 礁，岩，嶼；小型石質島嶼，漲潮時可能被淹沒
   • 1805, George Barry, History of the Orkney Islands，第 322 頁:

     The Seal (phoca vitulina, Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of selchy, is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries, where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].

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   • 1997, Bernard Scudder, transl., Egil's Saga, Penguin Books，第 46 頁:

     Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries, then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.

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   • 2000, Jeremy Gaskell, Who Killed the Great Auk?, Oxford University Press，第 20 頁:

     The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry, finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.

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異序詞

• skryer

低地蘇格蘭語

詞源

源自古諾爾斯語 sker。

名詞

skerry (複數 skerries)

1. (多用於設得蘭、奧克尼) 礁，岩，嶼
   • 2004, Sheena Blackhall, The Humpty Dumpty Man:

     Tae the icy flowes o the Shetlan voes he sailed tae Scalloway, / There his sweethairt won, far a Viking sun shines ower the skerries grey.

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拓展閱讀

• 「skerry」 in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.