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Notes and queries
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19370.
Breeze
(Andrew): Celtic etymologies for Old English
cursung
‘curse’,
gafeluc
‘javelin’,
stær
‘history’,
syrce
‘coat of mail’, and Middle English
clog
(
ge
) ‘block, wooden shoe’,
cokkunge
‘striving’,
tirven
‘to flay’,
warroke
‘hunchback’.
In
N&Q 40/3
(Sep., 1993), pp. 287–297.
OE
cursung
‘curse’: OIr
cúrsagad
‘reprimand’; OE
gafeluc
‘javelin’: OIr.
gablach
; OE
stær
: MBr.
ster
‘history, meaning’; OE
syrce
‘coat of mail’: W
seirch
‘armour’; Engl.
clog
‘block, wooden shoe’: Welsh
clog
'stone, boulder’;
cokkunge
‘striving’ in
Hali Meiðhad
: a Welsh loanword?; MEngl.
tirve
‘strip, flay; overthrow’: W
tyrfu
' ‘wrench, turn’;
Warroke
‘hunchback’ in
Jolly Wat the Shepherd
.
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