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The word shares a root with the Germanic word that survives in English as heath.Both descend from a root */kait-/, which developed as Common Celtic */kaito-/ > Common Brittonic and Gaulish */kɛːto-/ > Old Welsh coit > Middle and Modern Welsh coed, Old Cornish cuit > Middle Cornish co(y)s > Cornish cos, Old Breton cot, coet > Middle Breton koed > Breton koad.
Map of Celtic-influenced regions of Europe, in dark green 1 and 2 : regions where Celtic languages are attested from the Middle Ages until today. Celtic toponymy is the study of place names wholly or partially of Celtic origin.
Gaelic-language given names (2 C, 12 P) I. ... Celtic toponyms (7 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Celtic names" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The various names used since classical times for the people known today as the Celts are of disparate origins.. The names Κελτοί (Keltoí) and Celtae are used in Greek and Latin, respectively, to denote a people of the La Tène horizon in the region of the upper Rhine and Danube during the 6th to 1st centuries BC in Graeco-Roman ethnography.
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
Scottish given names (3 C, 12 P) W. Welsh given names (3 C, 83 P) Pages in category "Celtic given names" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
It deals with linguistic varieties of "fragmentary attestation " from two strands of Celtic peoples: 1) the oldest, perhaps already settled in the Bronze Age, the ancestors of the Celts of Golasecca culture, who spoke a language (the so-called Lepontic language) which is more archaic, more conservative Gaulish language; 2) groups of Gauls that penetrated in Italy in the fourth century BC (and ...
Celtic name Modern name Anobrega: Ponte da Barca: Anobra: Anobra in Condeixa-a-Nova. Likely derived from ānniyobris "hill", "ring" (Cf. old Irish ainne "ring"), [1] Arabriga: probably Alenquer or between Sesimbra and Outão: Arcobica: probably Torrão in Alcácer do Sal: Arcobriga: probably near Braga: Aritium Praetorium: probably Tamazim ...