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Caigeann og køkja
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the animals together. In the Faroes (Suðuroy) this board has two holes
in it, in Scotland (South Uist) three holes are customary. Since the
Faroese word does not occur in any other Scandinavian language we
may assume that the word is originally Gaelic. In the Viking Age the
present form caigeann was most likely *coicenn (according to MacBain
a compound con- «with» and cenn «head»). The short o ol the Gaelic
subsequently became long ø in Faroese under the influence of such
words as krøkja, røkja, fløkja etc.
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