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caib.

pickaxe

4 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. pickaxe

    feminine · masculine

  2. mattock

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

Closely resembles Scottish Gaelic caibe (“mattock”), but deriving the -b- in both Gaelic and Welsh from a common inherited source is difficult. Given that the Gaelic word is not found in Irish, it is possible to postulate that the Gaelic word is a borrowing from a Brittonic substrate language.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.