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cen.

scurf, dandruff

3 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/kɛn/

  1. scurf, dandruff

    masculine

  2. scale (on fish, bud)

    masculine

  3. scale, scurf, fur (in pipe, boiler, furnace, kettle)

    masculine

  4. lichen

    masculine

  5. tartar

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh kenn (“skin, hide”), from Proto-Brythonic *kenn, from Proto-Celtic *kennos (“skin”) (compare Cornish kenn (“film, skin (on liquid); peel”), Breton kenn (“scurf, dandruff”), Old Irish cenn (“covering”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”) (compare German schinden (“to strip, peel; skin”)); further to Cornish skans (“fish scales”), Breton skant (“fish scales”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”).

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