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Where does “fad” come from?

fad (Irish) comes from Old Irish fot, from Proto-Celtic *wazdos.

fad (Irish): length

Definitions

  1. length

Ancestry of “fad”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishfotlength
2Proto-Celtic*wazdos—
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