vraic

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English

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From Auregnais Norman vraic (seaweed), from Germanic. Doublet of wrack.

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vraic (uncountable)

  1. (Channel Islands) Seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 45:
      There was some sort of big pans, I didn't know what they was for; but Jim said once upon a time they was used to boil vraic to make iodine.
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Norman

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From a Germanic source; compare English wrack, Dutch wrak, German Wrack, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (to drive out).

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vraic m (uncountable)

  1. (Guernsey) seaweed, vraic
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[1], page 537:
      Pouit de vraic, pouit de haugard.
      No seaweed, no corn ricks.