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What is the Irish for 'grandson'?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The Irish words for 'grandson' are: 'garmhac'(garwok)

or "Ua" which is the word that became the O' in Irish surnames.

The first is more common.

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