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clabber, clauber (from clábar) wet clay or mud; curdled milk. clock O.Ir. clocc meaning "bell"; into Old High German as glocka, klocka [15] (whence Modern German Glocke) and back into English via Flemish; [16] cf also Welsh cloch but the giving language is Old Irish via the hand-bells used by early Irish missionaries.
cross – The ultimate source of this word is Latin crux. The English word comes from Old Irish cros via Old Norse kross. crubeens - Pig's feet, from Irish crúibín. cudeigh – A night's lodging, from Irish cuid na hoíche. currach or curragh – An Irish boat made from skins or tarred canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Irish currach.
These lists of English words of Celtic origin include English words derived from Celtic origins. These are, for example, Common Brittonic , Gaulish , Irish , Scottish Gaelic , Welsh , or other languages.
The native term for these is béarlachas (Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲeːɾˠl̪ˠəxəsˠ]), from Béarla, the Irish word for the English language. It is a result of language contact and bilingualism within a society where there is a dominant, superstrate language (in this case, English) and a minority substrate language with few or no ...
Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Irish-language words and phrases .
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This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
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