I used to have a small two-handled cup that was given to me as a gift. Someone who saw it mentioned that they’d seen an obscure word for such a thing – and I’m now trying to remember what that word was.
I think the word was Gaelic in origin (or sounded like it); what I’m not sure of is whether she knew if the word described what I actually had, but it was definitely required to be two-handled.
I actually have some guesses I found from web searches, but none of them really ring a bell.
It wasn’t tyg, which often has three or more handles.
It might have been cuach (or ‘quaigh’ as it is rendered in English), which does have a Gaelic origin and is described as two-handled.
(Examples of the above, and a bunch of other drinking vesselscan be found here .)
I thought it was a longer word, maybe three syllables; does anyone have any idea what it might be?