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Where does “glic” come from?

glic (Irish) comes from Old Irish glicc, from Proto-Celtic glikkis.

glic (Irish): sly, cunning, shrewd

Definitions

  1. sly, cunning, shrewd

Ancestry of “glic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishgliccshrewd, ingenious, skilled, acute
2Proto-Celticglikkis—
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