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rocán

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Searchable Lemmata: rocán (Ir).
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    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; some kind of outer garment; a tunic or cloak.(1200 - 1400)
1. rocan: inar Gloss. [eDIL Met. Gl (Ff. 35) ante 1400]
2. rocan .i. ionar no cochall Gloss, Lexicon. From Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's glossary, published in the Early Modern period but drawing on medieval manuscript sources. [eDIL O'Cl (007) 1643]
c.f.: inar, rocket 1, rokke, rucht
Ir; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: Male    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Speculative, probably a borrowing of Old English rocc 'outer garment' etc. (see rokke), + diminutive suffix -án. A borrowing of a hypotheical Old Norse *rokk(r) is not impossible, but Old Icelandic rokkr is only attested in a late text and there apparently < Middle Low German; however, Scandinavian cognates such as Old Swedish/Old Danish rok show the word existed early. OED suggests that the Proto-Germanic root lying behind the various reflexes may be cognate with that seen in Irish rucht (q.v.), the latter with a dental affix and velar quality of the vowel; but this is not certain.
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