Scots

name
/skɒts/

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots Scots, from Middle Scots Scottis, from Old English Scottysċ, a late variant of earlier Scyttisċ (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scottish.

  1. derived from Scottysċ
  2. derived from Scottis
  3. borrowed from Scots

Definitions

  1. A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of…

    A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Middle English, spoken in parts of Scotland, now especially in the northeastern and southern regions of the country.

  2. Scottish.

  3. plural of Scot

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Scots. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at scots. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at scots

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA