dùrachd

dùrachd
dùrachd, dùthrachd
good wish, wish, diligence, Irish dúthrachd, Old Irish dúthracht, *devo-traktu-s-, *trakkô, press; Anglo-Saxon thringan, German dringen, press forward, English throng (Stokes). Windisch has compared Sanskrit tark, think, which may be the same as tark of tarkus, spindle, Latin torqueo. Verb dùraig.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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