A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1466, 1569, 1679-1699
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Seg(g)y, adj. Also: segi-, seg(g)ie-, saigi-. [e.m.E. seggie (1566). Also in the mod. dial.; Seg(g n.] Sedgy, covered in or bordered with sedge or sedges, hence, marshy.Found only as an initial element in place-names.11… Reg. St. A. 239.
De duabus carucetis terre … que vocatur Segyden 1302 Lindores Chart. 177.
Quodam Marisio quod anglice dicitur Seggymir c1318 Laing Chart. 8.
[Two acres at] Seggywellisheuid 1466 Acts Lords Auditors 6/1.
The landis of Segidene 1569 Protocol Book of John Robeson 57.
The … pece of land callit the Seggy Warde 1679 Scottish Notes and Queries XII 152.
Seggieden 1680 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 97.
Saigiffurd 1683 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 186.
Segiefoord 1699 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 814.
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