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folc.

downpour, flood

4 characters1 syllables approx.Gaeilge language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. downpour, flood

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Old Irish folc (“heavy rain, wet weather”).

verb
  1. bathe

    transitive
  2. wash

    transitive
  3. immerse, submerge, drench

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Old Irish folcaid (“washes”), from Proto-Celtic *wolkīti. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic failc (“to bathe”), and more distantly Welsh golchi, Cornish golhi, Breton gwalc'hiñ.

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