Where does “corc” come from?

corc (Irish) comes from English Cork, from Middle English cork, from Middle Dutch curc, from Spanish corcho, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.

corc (Irish): cork

Definitions

  1. cork

Ancestry of “corc”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishCork(County Cork)
2Middle Englishcorkoak bark, cork
3Middle Dutchcurccork
4Spanishcorchocork
5LatincortexThe bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;...
6Proto-Indo-European*(s)kort-ek-s
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s