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caoch.

blind, purblind (of creature)

5 characters1 syllables approx.Gaeilge language

Meaning & usage

adj/keːx/Munster[këːə̯x]Munster/kiːx/Connacht/kiːx/Ulster
  1. blind, purblind (of creature)

  2. blind, empty; (of place) blind, closed up (of seed-vessel)

  3. nontrump

  4. blind, purblind person, creature

    masculine · noun-from-verb
  5. found in the names of agriculturally harmful organisms

    feminine · noun-from-verb
Where this word comes from

From Old Irish cáech (“blind in one eye”), from Proto-Celtic *kaikos (compare Welsh coeg (“one-eyed, blind”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ikos (“one-eyed”) (compare Latin caecus (“blind”)).

verb/keːx/Munster[këːə̯x]Munster/kiːx/Connacht/kiːx/Ulster
  1. to blind; daze, dazzle

    transitive
  2. to become empty, wither

    intransitive
  3. to close, become blocked

    intransitive
  4. to wink [with ar ‘at’]; flicker

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Old Irish cáech (“blind in one eye”), from Proto-Celtic *kaikos (compare Welsh coeg (“one-eyed, blind”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ikos (“one-eyed”) (compare Latin caecus (“blind”)).

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