Any of the Brittonic languages spoken by the Celtic inhabitants of Britain. Later: spec. Welsh.
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释义 | the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic > Brythonic (16) BritishOE Any of the Brittonic languages spoken by the Celtic inhabitants of Britain. Later: spec. Welsh. British Celtic1786 (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.)… Brythonic1879 = Brittonic, n. Brittonic1918 The group of Celtic languages, now represented by Welsh, Cornish, and Breton, in which the Indo-European voiceless labiovelar stop (the sound… P-Celtic1919 The group of Celtic languages in which the Indo-European voiceless labiovelar stop (the sound typically represented in modern written English by qu)… Subcategories:— Cornish (1) — Cumbrian (1) — Breton (4) — Welsh (5) |
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