单词 | welsh british |
释义 | Welsh Britishn.adj. historical. A. n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic > Brythonic > Welsh WelshOE Welsh British1610 Cymraeg1743 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 237 Scarse fiue miles from this place, the river Avon passeth thorow the mids of Bristow, in Welch-British [L. Britannis], Caer oder Nant Badon, that is, The Citie Oder, in the Vale of Badon. 1733 J. Quinton Treat. Warm Bath Water 5 Our common Chronicles call it Troy novat, for want of Skill in the British Tongue, as they do Totnes, for the one signifieth Setnier in Welsh British or Corni, the other new Troy. 1838 D. Gilbert Parochial Hist. Cornwall III. 429 As gealvy is an eel fish in Scotch and Irish, so malsay is an eel in Welsh British. 2. historical. With the: Welsh Britons, considered collectively; = Welsh n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [noun] > ancient Britons Welshc1275 Welsh British1907 1907 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 39 49 The Welsh British had themselves absorbed a subjected race, that of the little dark-skinned, quick-eyed Aquitanian people . 1943 C. W. Jones Bedae Opera de temporibus 87 There is a specific, scornful reference to Patrick and his aides in the phrase ‘quidam Galliae partes compotarii,’ for, to the Welsh British, Patrick was a Gaul. 2003 R. Fraser Story of Brit. (2005) 51 He also adopted Roman methods to keep the Welsh British out of England, constructing his famous Dyke from sea to sea. B. adj. Of or relating to the Welsh Britons or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [adjective] > ancient Britons WelsheOE BritishOE Brett1535 Britainc1540 Welsh British1659 Brittonic1890 1659 A. Evans Rule from Heaven 15 From that time to this day, the Welch British blood, according to the Welch Prophesies, hath continued on the Throne of great Britain. 1790 W. Pryce tr. E. Lhuyd in Archæologia Cornu-Britannica To Courteous & Noble Inhabitants County Cornwall p. i I was bound..to write, so as I could, on the British Tongue (or oldest Language of this Island) something more than had been written before..on the Welsh-British. 1849 E. J. Millington tr. F. von Schlegel Aesthetic & Misc. Wks. iii. iii. 253 The Picts..were not of Teutonic, but of Welsh-British origin, and allied to the Celtic inhabitants of Wales. 1957 Hist. Today 7 382/2 His descendants had pushed their frontier far to the south of the Forth, the ancient southern boundary of Pictland. The Welsh-British principality of Strathclyde and Cumbria was in their hands. 2005 D. A. Leeming Oxf. Compan. World Mythol. 75/2 Chrétien de Troyes..wrote metrical romances about the Welsh-British hero King Arthur. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1610 |
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