| 单词 | welsh celtic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWelsh Celtic Welsh Celtic n. and adj. (a) n. the Brittonic language of Wales; = Cymraeg n. (b) adj. designating the Brittonic language of Wales; of or in this language; = sense A. 4. [Used at various times to distinguish the Welsh language (compare sense A. 4, and also the associated culture) both from other Celtic languages (compare earlier Irish Celtic n. and adj. at Irish adj. and n. Compounds 3 and Scotch Celtic n. and adj. at Scotch adj. and n.3 Compounds 2) and from Welsh English (compare earlier Welsh English n. and later Welsh English adj.). Compare also earlier Welsh British n., Welsh British adj., and slightly earlier British Celtic n. and adj. at British adj. and n. Compounds 2.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Celtic > Welsh Welsh?a1425 British1548 Welsh Celtic1789 Powysian1805 1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. I. iii. ii. 139 To derive old names from the Irish or Welch Celtic, is as ludicrous as it would be to derive ancient names in Greece or Italy, from modern Greek or Italian. 1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVI. 299 (note) Bod is Welsh-Celtic for ‘habitation’. 1826 Pamphleteer 27 189 Adon is yet the word for Lord in the Welsh Celtic language. 1883 D. H. Wheeler By-ways of Lit. 100 It is believed that the Welsh-Keltic manuscripts are unusually vicious in the texts. 1903 Bradford Antiquary July 338 Welsh Celtic has the word sad meaning firm. 2003 Guardian (Nexis) 8 Feb. (Saturday pages) 4 Jones re-peopled the hills and woods..with episodes of the Welsh Celtic epic, the Mabinogion. 2005 Western Morning News (Nexis) 25 Jan. 4 The Romany people (whose language is under [as] much threat as Scots, Welsh Celtic and Cornish Kernewik). < as lemmas |
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