siller
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See also: Siller
Middle English
Noun
siller
- Alternative form of sellere
Scots
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English silver, from Old English seolfor, from Proto-West Germanic *silubr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą.
Adjective
siller (not comparable)
Noun
siller (uncountable)
- silver
- 1792, Robert Burns, When Princes and Prelates:
- The great folk hae siller, and houses and lands
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1824, Sir Walter Scott, “Wandering Willie's Tale”, in Redgauntlet:
- “Here, Dougal,” said the laird, “gie Steenie a tass of brandy, till I count the siller and write the receipt.”
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- “siller” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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