kintra
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Scots
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
kintra (plural kintras)
- country, nation
- 1835, Robert Nicoll, “The Auld Beggar Man”, in Poems and Lyrics (in English), Edinburgh: William Tait; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Dublin: John Cumming, →OCLC, page 11:
- Syne the hale kintra’s clashes he screeds them aff han’— / He’s a gabbin’ bit birkie, the Auld Beggar Man.
References
- Indo-European Language Groups / Scots Language
- “kintra”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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