curach

curach
a boat, coracle, Irish, Early Irish curach, Irish Latin curucis, dat.pl. (Adamnan), Welsh corwc, cwrwg, cwrwgl, *kuruko- (Stokes); Armen. kur, a boat, Old Slavonic korici, a kind of vessel. The Latin carina has been compared, but the vowels are unsuitable. Hence English coracle.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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