Where does “kigliw” come from?

kigliw (Cornish) comes from Cornish kig — meat, flesh.

kigliw (Cornish): pink; flesh-coloured

Definitions

  1. pink; flesh-coloured

Ancestry of “kigliw”, step by step

kigliw traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Cornish kig

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishkigmeat, flesh

via Cornish liw

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishliwcolour; paint, dye
Every word from Cornish kig
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