leathar

leathar
leather, so Irish, Early Irish lethar, Welsh lledr, Middle Breton lezr, Breton ler: *letro-; English leather, German leder, Norse leðr. To prove that the Teutons borrowed this word from the Celts, it is asserted that the original Celtic is *(p)letro-, root pel of Greek $$Gpella, hide, English fell.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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