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Interesting maybe that Coinín (sp?) is rabbit in modern Irish/Gaeilge and is pronounced in the former manner. Presumably it has some indo European roots, that d
by rusk 5y ago
Interesting maybe that Coinín (sp?) is rabbit in modern Irish/Gaeilge and is pronounced in the former manner. Presumably it has some indo European roots, that didn’t spread into common English usage.
- gutta-percha 5y agoRabbits were introduced to Ireland, so the word for them was probably borrowed from English or French.
- rusk 5y agoSpecifically not English I would have thought …
- dorchadas 5y agoYeah, it was borrowed from Anglo-Norman.
- rusk 5y agoWhich is about as close to modern English as modern Irish is.
- dorchadas 5y agoYep. In fact, depending on which classification scheme of the Indo-European languages you follow, it could be argued it's closer to Irish than it is to English (Italo-Celtic branching). But I was just agreeing that it did come from, essentially, a dialect of French.
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