4421.
Breeze
(Andrew): Middle English
tod
‘fox’, Old Irish
táid
‘thief’.
In
ScotL 13
(1994), pp. 51–53.
Argues Sc. and north. Engl.
tod
< OIr.
táid
.
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Classifications:
D 1.2.4 Lexical copying (= Lexical borrowing) between Irish (incl. Scottish Gaelic and Manx) and English (incl. Scots)
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táid