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Our language, after time, becomes clipped (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

erse

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(Other definitions for erse that I've seen before include "Celtic tongue" , "Kind of Gaelic for seer" , "Old Gaelic for the seer" , "Possibly the language" , "Old Scots or Irish Gaelic" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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