sicc

English

Etymology 1

From sick +‎ -cc.

Adjective

sicc (comparative more sicc, superlative most sicc)

1. Eye dialect spelling of sick (“in poor health; ill”).
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Etymology 2

See sic.

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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• secc (feminine ā-stem)

Etymology

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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 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