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Dennis King donncha at eskimo.com
Sat Mar 20 05:33:39 UTC 1999


Sheila Watts:

>>I have no idea what a "bilberry" is. Is it something Hobbits eat?
>
>Small mountain fruit called 'fraughan' in Ireland (in English, so to
>speak).

fraughan < Irish "fraocha/n" (< "fraoch" (= heather) + dim. suffix)
= vaccinium myrtilis = whortleberry

Dennis King



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