Etymology

sugan

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Today it means: A straw rope. Full definition →

Irish súgán ← Proto-Celtic *souggo ← Proto-Indo-European *sew-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sew-“to bend, to cut, to drive”
  2. Proto-Celtic · derived from*souggo
  3. Irish · borrowed fromsúgán“rope”
  4. English todaysugan

Borrowed from Irish súgán (“rope”), from Proto-Celtic *souggo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”), see also Sanskrit सुवति (suvati). Doublet of soogan.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*sew- all →

hullswage

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