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` Welsh musical or poetic competition 'from the Welsh eisteddfodau, ` sitting' or ` session '; flannel, from the Welsh gwlanen, which comes from the word gwlan meaning
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She has a throwaway reference to the Ulaid being named for the wool they produced - this would link the word to modern Irish olann, which is a cousin of Welsh gwlan and goes all the way back to Proto-Indo-European * wlna and thus English woollen, and (dropping the initial w) Latin lana and French laine.
Ulster etymology nwhyte 2009
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