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Where does “dorn” come from?
dorn (Irish) comes from Old Irish dorn, from Proto-Celtic durnos — fist, hand.
dorn
(Irish): fist
Definitions
fist
Ancestry of “dorn”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Irish
dorn
fist
2
Proto-Celtic
durnos
fist, hand
Words derived from “dorn”
dornáil
doirnín
dornálaí
dornálaíocht
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