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[Surname] Re: Screaigh
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I'm convinced it's related to Skerry. This English word, borrowed from the Orkney dialect, is also a surname, frequent in place-names, and means 'a reef or rocky island covered by the sea at high tide'. It comes from Old Norse SKER.
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