Etymology

corcass

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Today it means: A riverine marsh in Ireland. Full definition →

Irish corcach
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  1. Irish · borrowed fromcorcach“bog, marsh, swamp”
  2. English todaycorcass

Borrowed from Irish corcach (“bog, marsh, swamp”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.