- meacan
- a root, bulb, Irish meacan, any top-rooted plant, Old Irish meccun, mecon, Greek $$Gmc/kwn, poppy; Old High German mági, German mohn; Church Slavonic maku: *mekkon-, root mek, mak of mac?
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.