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Brittonic, a. and n.|brɪˈtɒnɪk|
Also Britonic.
[f. Old Celtic *Britton- Briton + -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient Britons; spec. = Brythonic a.
B. n. The Brythonic language.
1923Glasgow Herald 16 Feb. 11 The extensive Britonic and Bangor missions. 1926Ibid. 25 Oct. 6 The Brittonic, or British, missionaries completed the Christianisation of the Northern Britons. 1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. 3 Until fairly recently, the term Brythonic, coined by Rhys, was regularly used to describe the language brought to Britain by the bearers of that variety of primitive Celtic speech known as P-Celtic... Of late there has been an increasing tendency to use Brittonic instead. Ibid. 154 A Brittonic-speaking population. 1960Reaney Orig. Eng. Place-Names v. 87 Brittonic was still spoken in Somerset and Dorset at the end of the seventh century. Ibid. 88 Here Brittonic names are rare. |