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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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echt
noun, verb, adjective
trouble, worry:
What’s echt ye?
[What’s troubling you?]
20-
.
etymology:
origin obscure; perhaps a development from or Scots
aucht
,
noun
‘anything’; attested by
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