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Where does “birrus” come from?

birrus (Gaulish) comes from Proto-Celtic birros — short.

birrus (Gaulish): short cloak

Definitions

  1. short cloak

Ancestry of “birrus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Celticbirrosshort

Words derived from “birrus”

  • beret
  • berets
  • biretta
  • bereted
  • birrus
  • beretlike
  • berretta
  • berretta
  • берет
  • béret
  • beret
  • μπερές
  • bere
  • berret
  • birrus
  • birretum
  • berret
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