An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 27

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 27

Fr. _asper_, dur, rude, baton noueux; Gl. Roquefort.


ASPRIANCE, _s._


V. ~Asperans~.


_To_ a.s.s, _v. a._ To ask.


_Henrysone._


Germ. _eisch-en_, Fran. _eiscon_, interrogare.


a.s.s, _s._ Ashes.


V. ~As~.


_To_ a.s.sAILYIE, _v. a._ To attack, to a.s.sail.


_Wallace._


Fr. _a.s.saill-ir_; L. B. _adsal-ire_, _a.s.sal-ire_, invadere, aggredi.


a.s.sAYIS, _s._ a.s.size, convention.


_Wyntown._


a.s.sEDATION, _s._


1. A lease; a term still commonly used in our legal deeds, S.


_Balfour._


2. The act of letting in lease.


L. B. _a.s.sedatio_.


_Chalmerl. Air._


_To_ a.s.sEGE, _v. a._ To besiege.


_Wyntown._


Fr. _a.s.sieg-er_, L. B. _a.s.sidiare_, obsidere; from Lat. _ad_, and _sedeo_.


_To_ a.s.sEMBLE, _v. n._ To join in battle.


_Wyntown._


Fr. _a.s.sembl-er_, from Su. G. _saml-a_, Germ. _saml-en_, Belg.


_zamel-en_, congregare; from Su. G. and Germ. _sam_, a prefix denoting a.s.sociation and conjunction.


a.s.sEMBLe, _s._ Engagement, battle.


_Wyntown._


a.s.sENYHE, _s._ The word of war.


Corr. from ~Ensenyie~, q. v.


_Barbour._


a.s.sILAG, _s._ The stormy petrel, a bird; Procellaria pelagica, Linn.


_Martin._


Perhaps from Gael. _eascal_, Ir. _eashal_, a storm.


a.s.sILTRIE, _s._ An axle-tree.


_Douglas._


Fr. _a.s.seul_, Ital. _a.s.sile_, axis.


_To_ a.s.sYTH, a.s.sYITH, SYITH, SITHE, _v. a._ To make a composition to another, to satisfy, Old E. _a.s.seeth_, _a.s.seth_, id.


_Acts Ja. I._


Lat. _ad_ and A. S. _sithe_, vice; Skinner. Rather from Su. G. and Isl. _saett-a_ conciliare; reconciliare. Ir. and Gael. _sioth-am_, to make atonement.


a.s.sYTH, a.s.sYTHMENT, SYTH, SITHEMENT, _s._ Compensation, satisfaction, atonement for an offence. _a.s.sythment_ is still used as a forensic term.


S. O. E. _aseeth_, Wiclif.


_Wyntown._


This word is still in use in our courts of law, as denoting satisfaction for an injury done to any party.


Su. G. _saett_, reconciliation, or the fine paid in order to procure it.