Etymology

giggot

gig·got
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Today it means: twenty in Cumbrian sheep counting Full definition →

Brythonic ← Cumbric *gwıgeint ← Proto-Brythonic *ʉgėnt
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*wikantī
  2. Proto-Brythonic · derived from*ʉgėnt
  3. Cumbric · derived from*gwıgeint
  4. Brythonic · derived from
  5. English todaygiggot

From Brythonic numerals, from an assumed Cumbric *gwıgeint, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉgėnt, from Proto-Celtic *wikantī.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.