Scots-Irishn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌskɒtsˈʌɪrɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˌskɑtsˈaɪrɪʃ/

Forms: see Scots adj. and n. and Irish adj. and n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Scots adj., Irish n.

Etymology: < Scots adj. + Irish n. With sense A. 2 compare earlier Irish Scot n. 1b and slightly earlier Scottish-Irish adj. 1. With sense B. 2 compare slightly earlier Scotch-Irish adj. 2. With sense B. 3 compare earlier Scotch-Irish adj. 1.

A. n. Chiefly with plural agreement. Frequently with the.

1. Ulster Scots (Ulster Scot n. 1) and their descendants considered collectively.The more usual term in North America is Scotch-Irish n. 2.

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1581 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1907) V. 599 Have some foote men of the Scottis Irishe as I can devise and gett.

1871 R. Somers Southern States since War xxxiv. 239 A grave, elderly man of the race known in America as ‘Scots-Irish’.

1898 W. Wilson State (rev. ed.) 444 Virginia grew more than even like rural England; and followed the new ways until the Scots-Irish came into the valley, to add another quality and the spice of variety.

1912 C. M. Andrews Colonial Period 162 Westwardly, the migrating New Englander, German, and Scots-Irish were filling up the upland and back-country.

1972 Listener 21 Dec. 854/2 The hostility of the Catholic Irish and the Protestant Scots-Irish.

1999 S. Heaney tr. Beowulf (2000) Introd. p. xxv When the Scots Irish emigrated to the American South in the eighteenth century.

†2. Gaelic-speaking inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands and Islands considered collectively; = Scotch-Irish n. 1. Also (occasionally): a member of this people. Obsolete.

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1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 73 The Irishe men, and our Scottis Irishe [L. ipsi Hibernici & nostri Hibernenses Scoti] acknawlege the same for thair first and mother toung.

1645 R. Baillie Let. 25 Apr. (1841) II. 262 Some fifteen hundred naked Scots Irishes having loppen from isle to isle, till at last, getting a way through Badyenoch, they brake down on Strathern.

1829 W. Scott Let. 5 June (1891) II. 470/2 [The Lowlanders] were of twenty different races, and almost all distinctly different from the Scots Irish, who are the proper Scots.

3. Celtic History. The Irish Scots (Irish Scot n. 1a) considered collectively. Cf. Scotch-Irish n. 3.The work referred to in quot. 1808, G. Chalmers Caledonia (1807), uses the term Scoto-Irish (cf. Scoto- comb. form¹ 2) in the passage quoted.

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1729 T. Innes Crit. Ess. Anc. Inhabitants Scotl. I. i. ix. 163 A proof that the Stuarts are not descended from the Scots-Irish, is, that never any of the families bore, in ancient times, any Scots-Irish name, as all our kings of the Scots-Irish line did.

1808 Lit. Panorama Mar. 478/2 The Scots Irish brought with them..a general cry..Albanich, which they usually raised before the onset [of a battle].

1891 J. S. Verschoyle Hist. Mod. Civilization ii. 61 The national hatred was too great for it [sc. the British Church] to convert the Saxon invaders. This was done partly in the north by Aidan and others of the Scots-Irish.

1953 M. Lindsay Lowlands of Scotl.: Glasgow & North vi. 166 The absence of Iona Crosses in eastern Scotland, where the Picts held sway, suggests the finest artists were..the Scots-Irish of the west.

2000 G. G. Hunter Celtic Way of Evangelism i. 18 Hoards of the Irish invaded Scotland and absorbed the Picts, thus accounting for the term ‘Scots-Irish’.

B. adj.

†1. Designating the Q-Celtic language spoken in the Scottish Highlands and Islands; cf. Scottish Gaelic adj. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Celtic > Scottish

Erse1425

Irish1554

Scotch1633

Scots-Irish1652

Scotic1707

Scotch Gaelic1776

Scottish Gaelic1801

Scots Gaelic1820

1652 T. Urquhart Παντοχρονοχανον 28 Our Scots-Irish language is termed Galick, as they from Galicia.

2. Of or belonging to the Ulster Scots (Ulster Scot n. 1); descended from the Ulster Scots but living elsewhere, esp. in North America. Also: of mixed Scottish and Irish ancestry.The more usual term in North America is Scotch-Irish adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [adjective] > descended from Scots

Scotch-Irish1622

Scots-Irish1698

Scottish-Irish1754

Ulster Scot1876

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [adjective] > descended from Scots > mixed Irish or Scots

Scottish-Irish1656

Scots-Irish1698

1698 A. Fletcher Two Disc. Affairs Scotl. i. 20 I am credibly informed, that every fifth man in the English Forces was either of this Nation [sc. Scotland], or Scots-Irish.

1771 N.-Y. Jrnl. 5 Sept. 1/3 These being the only members for some back counties which were chiefly settled by the Scots Irish presbyterians.

1788 H. H. Brackenridge in Amer. Museum (1790) Apr. 364/1 A senate is the next great constituent part of the government: and yet there is not a word said with regard to the ancestry of any of them, whether they should be altogether Irish, or only Scots Irish.

1836 J. Aiton Life & Times A. Henderson vii. 431 In course of time, a number of these Scots Irish Presbyterians made up their mind to emigrate to New England.

1850 Raleigh (N. Carolina) Reg. 20 Mar. Judge Grier, who is no German, but is what is called in Pennsylvania, a ‘Scots Irish man’.

1891 J. Munro Heroes of Telegr. iv. 77 His father, Dr. James Thomson, the son of a Scots-Irish farmer, showed a bent for scholarship when a boy.

1972 Listener 21 Dec. 854/3 The Protestant Scots-Irish community.

1980 ‘D. Shannon’ Felony File i. 35 The feudal household his Scots-Irish girl had wished on him.

2008 J. Carter Remarkable Mother 191 The prime minister reminded us that 12 percent of our nation's citizens are Irish Americans—not including those who are Scots Irish.

3. Celtic History. Of or relating to the Irish Scots (Irish Scot n. 1a). Cf. earlier Scotch-Irish adj. 1. Cf. also Scots adj. 2. Now rare.The work referred to in quot. 1865, G. Chalmers Caledonia (1807), uses the term Scoto-Irish (cf. Scoto- comb. form¹ 2) in the passage quoted.

ΚΠ

1729 T. Innes Crit. Ess. Anc. Inhabitants Scotl. I. i. ix. 162 Popular traditions, on which alone I find our modern writers ground their opinion of the descent of the male-race of the royal line of the Stuarts from the Scots-Irish line.

1865 J. A. Robertson Conc. Hist. Proofs respecting Gael of Alban iv. 34 Chalmers..adds, ‘from all my enquiries it appears to me that no permanent colonization of North Britain by the Scots Irish people began till the recent period of the sixth century.’

2002 P. D. J. Arblaster Celtic Christianity i. 12 In the year AD 389 a young boy slept... He no doubt often heard of raids by Scots-Irish pirates and slavers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scots-irish
释义	Scots-Irishn.adj. Brit. /ˌskɒtsˈʌɪrɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌskɑtsˈaɪrɪʃ/ Forms: see Scots adj. and n. and Irish adj. and n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Scots adj., Irish n. Etymology: < Scots adj. + Irish n. With sense A. 2 compare earlier Irish Scot n. 1b and slightly earlier Scottish-Irish adj. 1. With sense B. 2 compare slightly earlier Scotch-Irish adj. 2. With sense B. 3 compare earlier Scotch-Irish adj. 1. A. n. Chiefly with plural agreement. Frequently with the. 1. Ulster Scots (Ulster Scot n. 1) and their descendants considered collectively.The more usual term in North America is Scotch-Irish n. 2. ΚΠ 1581 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1907) V. 599 Have some foote men of the Scottis Irishe as I can devise and gett. 1871 R. Somers Southern States since War xxxiv. 239 A grave, elderly man of the race known in America as ‘Scots-Irish’. 1898 W. Wilson State (rev. ed.) 444 Virginia grew more than even like rural England; and followed the new ways until the Scots-Irish came into the valley, to add another quality and the spice of variety. 1912 C. M. Andrews Colonial Period 162 Westwardly, the migrating New Englander, German, and Scots-Irish were filling up the upland and back-country. 1972 Listener 21 Dec. 854/2 The hostility of the Catholic Irish and the Protestant Scots-Irish. 1999 S. Heaney tr. Beowulf (2000) Introd. p. xxv When the Scots Irish emigrated to the American South in the eighteenth century. †2. Gaelic-speaking inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands and Islands considered collectively; = Scotch-Irish n. 1. Also (occasionally): a member of this people. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 73 The Irishe men, and our Scottis Irishe [L. ipsi Hibernici & nostri Hibernenses Scoti] acknawlege the same for thair first and mother toung. 1645 R. Baillie Let. 25 Apr. (1841) II. 262 Some fifteen hundred naked Scots Irishes having loppen from isle to isle, till at last, getting a way through Badyenoch, they brake down on Strathern. 1829 W. Scott Let. 5 June (1891) II. 470/2 [The Lowlanders] were of twenty different races, and almost all distinctly different from the Scots Irish, who are the proper Scots. 3. Celtic History. The Irish Scots (Irish Scot n. 1a) considered collectively. Cf. Scotch-Irish n. 3.The work referred to in quot. 1808, G. Chalmers Caledonia (1807), uses the term Scoto-Irish (cf. Scoto- comb. form¹ 2) in the passage quoted. ΚΠ 1729 T. Innes Crit. Ess. Anc. Inhabitants Scotl. I. i. ix. 163 A proof that the Stuarts are not descended from the Scots-Irish, is, that never any of the families bore, in ancient times, any Scots-Irish name, as all our kings of the Scots-Irish line did. 1808 Lit. Panorama Mar. 478/2 The Scots Irish brought with them..a general cry..Albanich, which they usually raised before the onset [of a battle]. 1891 J. S. Verschoyle Hist. Mod. Civilization ii. 61 The national hatred was too great for it [sc. the British Church] to convert the Saxon invaders. This was done partly in the north by Aidan and others of the Scots-Irish. 1953 M. Lindsay Lowlands of Scotl.: Glasgow & North vi. 166 The absence of Iona Crosses in eastern Scotland, where the Picts held sway, suggests the finest artists were..the Scots-Irish of the west. 2000 G. G. Hunter Celtic Way of Evangelism i. 18 Hoards of the Irish invaded Scotland and absorbed the Picts, thus accounting for the term ‘Scots-Irish’. B. adj. †1. Designating the Q-Celtic language spoken in the Scottish Highlands and Islands; cf. Scottish Gaelic adj. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Celtic > Scottish Erse1425 Irish1554 Scotch1633 Scots-Irish1652 Scotic1707 Scotch Gaelic1776 Scottish Gaelic1801 Scots Gaelic1820 1652 T. Urquhart Παντοχρονοχανον 28 Our Scots-Irish language is termed Galick, as they from Galicia. 2. Of or belonging to the Ulster Scots (Ulster Scot n. 1); descended from the Ulster Scots but living elsewhere, esp. in North America. Also: of mixed Scottish and Irish ancestry.The more usual term in North America is Scotch-Irish adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [adjective] > descended from Scots Scotch-Irish1622 Scots-Irish1698 Scottish-Irish1754 Ulster Scot1876 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [adjective] > descended from Scots > mixed Irish or Scots Scottish-Irish1656 Scots-Irish1698 1698 A. Fletcher Two Disc. Affairs Scotl. i. 20 I am credibly informed, that every fifth man in the English Forces was either of this Nation [sc. Scotland], or Scots-Irish. 1771 N.-Y. Jrnl. 5 Sept. 1/3 These being the only members for some back counties which were chiefly settled by the Scots Irish presbyterians. 1788 H. H. Brackenridge in Amer. Museum (1790) Apr. 364/1 A senate is the next great constituent part of the government: and yet there is not a word said with regard to the ancestry of any of them, whether they should be altogether Irish, or only Scots Irish. 1836 J. Aiton Life & Times A. Henderson vii. 431 In course of time, a number of these Scots Irish Presbyterians made up their mind to emigrate to New England. 1850 Raleigh (N. Carolina) Reg. 20 Mar. Judge Grier, who is no German, but is what is called in Pennsylvania, a ‘Scots Irish man’. 1891 J. Munro Heroes of Telegr. iv. 77 His father, Dr. James Thomson, the son of a Scots-Irish farmer, showed a bent for scholarship when a boy. 1972 Listener 21 Dec. 854/3 The Protestant Scots-Irish community. 1980 ‘D. Shannon’ Felony File i. 35 The feudal household his Scots-Irish girl had wished on him. 2008 J. Carter Remarkable Mother 191 The prime minister reminded us that 12 percent of our nation's citizens are Irish Americans—not including those who are Scots Irish. 3. Celtic History. Of or relating to the Irish Scots (Irish Scot n. 1a). Cf. earlier Scotch-Irish adj. 1. Cf. also Scots adj. 2. Now rare.The work referred to in quot. 1865, G. Chalmers Caledonia (1807), uses the term Scoto-Irish (cf. Scoto- comb. form¹ 2) in the passage quoted. ΚΠ 1729 T. Innes Crit. Ess. Anc. Inhabitants Scotl. I. i. ix. 162 Popular traditions, on which alone I find our modern writers ground their opinion of the descent of the male-race of the royal line of the Stuarts from the Scots-Irish line. 1865 J. A. Robertson Conc. Hist. Proofs respecting Gael of Alban iv. 34 Chalmers..adds, ‘from all my enquiries it appears to me that no permanent colonization of North Britain by the Scots Irish people began till the recent period of the sixth century.’ 2002 P. D. J. Arblaster Celtic Christianity i. 12 In the year AD 389 a young boy slept... He no doubt often heard of raids by Scots-Irish pirates and slavers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1581
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