korrigan
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See also: Korrigan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Breton korr (“dwarf”, literally “little dwarf”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]korrigan (plural korrigans)
- A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess.
- 1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 9:
- A continental Celtic female fairy called a corrigan, malevolent, sometimes seductive.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]korrigan m (plural korrigans, feminine korrigane)
- Male korrigan
Further reading
[edit]- “korrigan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.