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by gutta-percha 1777 days ago
Rabbits were introduced to Ireland, so the word for them was probably borrowed from English or French.
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Yeah, it was borrowed from Anglo-Norman.
Which is about as close to modern English as modern Irish is.
Yep. In fact, depending on which classification scheme of the Indo-European languages you follow, it could be argued it's closer to Irish than it is to English (Italo-Celtic branching). But I was just agreeing that it did come from, essentially, a dialect of French.
Specifically not English I would have thought …