iuchair

See also: Iuchair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish eochair, from Proto-Celtic *eks-koris, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“turn, curve”) (whence Latin curvus).[1] Compare Irish eochair.

Noun

iuchair f (genitive singular iuchrach, plural iuchraichean)

  1. key (for locking, winding etc)
  2. clef

Derived terms

See also

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217
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