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Lists Of English Words Of Celtic Origin
These lists of English words of Celtic origin include English words derived from Celtic origins. These are, for example, Common Brittonic, Gaulish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, or other languages. Lists of English words derived from Celtic language *List of English words of Brittonic origin *List of English words of Gaulish origin *List of English words of Irish origin *List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin *List of English words of Welsh origin See also * Irish words used in the English language References * Davies, JohnOn Keltic Words used by Early English Writers * * *Tristram, Hildegaard 2007: "Why Don't the English Speak Wels retrieved Jan.24,2014. *Douglas Harper,"Online Etymology Dictionar retrieved Jan.24,2014. *Hoad, TF (ed) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1993) Oxford University Press *Hoad, T.F. (ed) (1986) Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Etymology Oxford *MacBain, A. (1911) An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language *We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Languages
The Celtic languages ( usually , but sometimes ) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described by classical writers and the Welsh and Breton languages. During the 1st millennium BC, Celtic languages were spoken across much of Europe and central Anatolia. Today, they are restricted to the northwestern fringe of Europe and a few diaspora communities. There are six living languages: the four continuously living languages Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, and the two revived languages Cornish and Manx. All are minority languages in their respective countries, though there are continuing efforts at revitalisation. Welsh is an official language in Wales and Irish is an official language of Ireland and of the European Union. Welsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Brittonic
Common Brittonic ( cy, Brythoneg; kw, Brythonek; br, Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, was a Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany. It is a form of Insular Celtic, descended from Proto-Celtic, a theorized parent tongue that, by the first half of the first millennium BC, was diverging into separate dialects or languages. Pictish is linked, likely as a sister language or a descendant branch. Evidence from early and modern Welsh shows that Common Brittonic took a significant amount of influence from Latin during the Roman period, especially in terms related to the church and Christianity. By the sixth century AD, the tongues of the Celtic Britons were more rapidly splitting into Neo-Brittonic: Welsh, Cumbric, Cornish, Breton, and possibly the Pictish language. Over the next three centuries it was replaced in most of Scotland by Scottish Gaelic and by Old English (from which descend Modern English and Scots) throughout most o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaulish Language
Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine). In a wider sense, it also comprises varieties of Celtic that were spoken across much of central Europe (" Noric"), parts of the Balkans, and Anatolia (" Galatian"), which are thought to have been closely related. The more divergent Lepontic of Northern Italy has also sometimes been subsumed under Gaulish. Together with Lepontic and the Celtiberian spoken in the Iberian Peninsula, Gaulish helps form the geographic group of Continental Celtic languages. The precise linguistic relationships among them, as well as between them and the modern Insular Celtic languages, are uncertain and a matter of ongoing debate because of their sparse at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language revival, and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Words Of Brittonic Origin
Few English words are known to come directly from Brittonic. More can be proven to derive from Gaulish, which arrived through Norman French, often strengthened in form and use by Church/state Latin. This list omits words of Celtic origin coming from later forms of Brittonic and intermediate tongues: * See Gaulish (e.g. ''ambassador'', ''bound'', ''car'', ''carpenter'', ''piece''), via Norman/Old French *Other Continental Celtic (e.g. ''down''), via Germanic * See List of English words of Welsh origin a list which includes Cornish (e.g. ''coracle''; ''crag''; ''corgi'' (type of dog), likely ''flannel''; likely ''gull'' (type of bird), ''iron'', ''lawn'', ''wrasse'' (type of fish)) * See Gaelic (e.g. ''keening'', ''bog'', ''bother'', ''hubbub'', ''glen'', ''clan'') * See Breton (chiefly local terms in archaeology: ''dolmen'', ''menhir'') List Academia recognises beyond all reasonable doubt "fewer than ten" Brittonic loan-words in English that are neither historic nor obsolete. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Words Of Gaulish Origin
A list of English Language words derived from the Celtic Gaulish language, entering English via Old Frankish or Vulgar Latin and Old French ; ambassador : from Old French ''embassadeur'', from Latin ''ambactus'', from Gaulish ''*ambactos'', "servant", "henchman", "one who goes about". ; beak : from Old French ''bec'', from Latin ''beccus'', from Gaulish ''beccos''. ; bilge : from Old French ''boulge'', from Latin ''bulga'', from Gaulish ''bulgā'', "sack". ; bran : from Gaulish ''brennos'', through the French ''bren'', "the husk of wheat", "barley...". ; branch : from Late Latin ''branca'' through Old French ''branche'', probably ultimately of Gaulish origin. ; brave : from Prov/Cat ''brau'', from Gaulish ''bragos''. ; budge (lambskin) : from Old French ''bulge'', from Latin ''bulga'', from Gaulish ''bulgā'', "sack". ; brie : from Gaulish ''briga'' "hill, height" ; budget : from Old French ''bougette'', from ''bouge'', from Latin ''bulga'', from Gaulish ''bulgā''. ; bulge : fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Words Of Irish Origin
This is a list of English language words from the Irish language with links provided to pronunciation in all three primarily Irish dialects, spoken by native Irish speakers, provided by Foras na Gaeilge. ;banshee (from Irish ''bainsídhe/beansídhe'', meaning "woman of fairy" or "of a fairy mound":Bean' (ban) is the Modern Irish word for ''woman.'' (modern spelling sí') is Irish for 'mound' (see Sidhe). In traditional Irish mythology, a spirit usually taking the form of a woman who sings caoineadh(lament) warning of impending death in an old Irish family. ; bog (from "boc", meaning "soft" or "marshy" and ''-aigh'' to form bogach meaning "soft soil composed primarily of peat"): Used as the Anglicized "bog" as slang for a mire, but also to become stuck or impeded. ;bogeyman (possibly from '' bogaigh'' + English ''man''): The worbogaighis pronounced approximately as "boggy", and the bogeyman legend originates from humanoid-appearing logs and human " bog-bodies" found well-preserve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Words Of Scottish Gaelic Origin
This is a list of English language, English words borrowed from Scottish Gaelic. Some of these are common in Scottish English and Scots language, Scots but less so in other varieties of English. Words of Scottish Gaelic origin ; Bard:''Collins English Dictionary 21st Century Edition'' Harper Collins (2001) The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel". The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek (''bardos'') and ancient Latin (''bardus'') writings (e.g. used by the poet Lucan, 1st century AD), which in turn took the word from the Gaulish language. ; Mountain, Ben: From , mountain. ; Bodach : Old man. ; Bog: From ''bog'' , soft (related to ''boglach'' swamp), from Old Irish ''bocc''.MacBain, A. (1911) ''An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language'' 14th century.Hoad, T.F. (ed) (1986) ''Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Words Of Welsh Origin
This is a list of English language words of Welsh language origin. As with the Goidelic languages, the Brythonic tongues are close enough for possible derivations from Cumbric, Cornish or Breton in some cases. Beyond the acquisition of common nouns, there are numerous English toponyms, surnames, personal names or nicknames derived from Welsh (see Celtic toponymy, Celtic onomastics). List As main word choice for meaning ; bara brith : ''speckled bread''. Traditional Welsh bread flavoured with tea, dried fruits and mixed spices. ; bard : from Old Celtic ''bardos'', either through Welsh ''bardd'' (where the bard was highly respected) or Scottish ''bardis'' (where it was a term of contempt); Cornish ''bardh'' ; cawl : a traditional Welsh soup/stew; Cornish ''kowl'' ; coracle : from ''corwgl''. This Welsh term was derived from the Latin ''corium'' meaning "leather or hide", the material from which coracles are made. ; corgi : from ''cor'', "dwarf" + ''gi'' (soft mutation of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
