buaghallan

buaghallan
buadhghallan, buaghallan
ragwort, Irish buadhghallan, Middle Irish buathbhallan, buathfallan: "virtue bearing wort"? More probably it is buaf-bhallan, "toad-wort", brom buaf, toad, reptile, from Latin bûfo. The Welsh call it "serpent's weed", llysiau'r nedir. Irish baufanau is "mugwort"; buadharlann (Hend.).

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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