sicc

English

Adjective

sicc (comparative more sicc, superlative most sicc)

1. Eye dialect spelling of sick.(clarification of this definition is needed)

Verb

sicc

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”)

Anagrams

• CCSI, CICs, CISC

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia. Compare Serbo-Croatian ши̏ц, šȉc, Romanian șiț.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃit͡sː]
• Hyphenation: sicc
• Rhymes: -it͡sː

Interjection

sicc

1. shoo! (an exclamation used to drive away cats)

Derived terms

• sipirc

Further reading

• sicc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• secc (feminine ā-stem)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕik/

Noun

sicc m (genitive seca)

1. frost

Descendants

• Irish: sioc

Mutation

Mutation of sicc

radical	lenition	nasalization
sicc	ṡicc	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sicc, secc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language