| 单词 | british celtic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBritish Celtic British Celtic n. and adj. (a) n. any of the Celtic languages spoken in early Britain or their modern descendants; (later) spec. those of the P-Celtic group (= Brittonic n.); (b) adj. of or designating these languages. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic Celtic1658 British Celtic1786 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic > Brythonic BritishOE British Celtic1786 Brythonic1879 Brittonic1918 P-Celtic1919 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Celtic > Brythonic Britishc1275 British Celtic1786 P-Celtic1902 1786 Let. in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 13 115 The first inhabitants of Ireland being swarms mostly from Britain, spoke the British-Celtic, undoubtedly. 1837 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. 22/2 The assumption..that the ancient British Celtic tongue is still substantially preserved in the modern Welsh. 1866 J. F. Leslie Early Races Scotl. 36 Pen is a British Celtic word, which enters into the formation of very many names of places in all parts of Britain except in Caledonia... It is all but unknown in the proper names of Caledonia and Ireland. 1887 J. A. Wylie Hist. Sc. Nation II. vi. 81 It is probable that the Scriptures, either in British Celtic, or in Latin, were the text book in this humble seminary. 1913 R. C. Maclagan Our Ancestors xx. 253 In all the British Celtic dialects, including early Irish, we have míl, meaning an animal, beast, brute. 1976 P. MacCana in J. J. O'Meara & B. Naumann Lat. Script & Lett. A.D. 400–900 195 The creation of a pluperfect tense, common to the several branches of British Celtic but without counterpart in Irish, can hardly be explained except through Latin influence. 2009 Irish Times (Nexis) 31 Oct. 12 The word for head is pen in Brythonic (British Celtic) languages, but ceann in Irish. < as lemmas |
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