cullach

cullach
a boar, Irish, Early Irish cullach, Old Irish callach, cullach, caullach, Breton kalloc'h, "entire", qellecq, epithet for stallions and boars, *kalluâko-s, from *kalljo-, testicle, Welsh caill, testiculus, Middle Breton quell; root kal, hard, as in clach, q.v., Norse hella, flat stone, etc. (Bezzenberger). Cf. Latin cuelleus, bag, scrotum, whence Old French couillon, English cullion, testicles, Scottish culls. Hence cullbhoc, wether-goat, Irish culbhoc.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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