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breacadh (ScG)

16202.
Bruford (Alan): Is tartan a Gaelic word?
In Gaelic and Scots in harmony (1990), pp. 57–71.
Suggests it derives from a Gaelic word describing the crossed pattern of the fabric (< *tarsnán or another derivative of tarsna).
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