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Cornish
Etymology
From Latin salicastrum. Compare Welsh and Armoric elestr, Irish soilestar (from Old Irish seilisdeir), and Late Latin alestrāre. Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ἄλισμα (álisma).
Noun
elester m (singulative elestren)
- (collective) flag, yellow iris
References
- ^ Y Cymmrodor, 1880, page 28
- ^ Alexander Macbain (1911) An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, page 307
- ^ Whitley Stokes (1879) Old-Breton Glosses ..., page 3