• Common Brittonic (Welsh: Brythoneg; Cornish: Brythonek; Breton: Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is a Celtic language...
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    Britons as opposed to an Anglo-Saxon or Gael. The Brittonic languages derive from the Common Brittonic language, spoken throughout Great Britain during...
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  • Look up brittonic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brittonic or Brythonic may refer to: Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently...
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    Cornish, and Bretons (among others). They spoke Common Brittonic, the ancestor of the modern Brittonic languages. The earliest written evidence for the...
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  • The Southwestern Brittonic languages (Breton: Predeneg ar mervent, Cornish: Brythonek Dyghowbarthgorlewin) are the Brittonic Celtic languages spoken in...
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  • Western Brittonic languages (Welsh: Brythoneg Gorllewinol) comprise two dialects into which Common Brittonic split during the Early Middle Ages; its counterpart...
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  • Cumbric (category Western Brittonic languages)
    Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in Northern England...
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    Celtic Britons inhabited most of the island of Great Britain and spoke Common Brittonic or British. Abnoba - Gaulish goddess worshipped in the Black Forest...
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  • has been termed Common Archaic Neo-Brittonic by Celticist John T. Koch. Documents written in Neo-Brittonic languages (or non-Brittonic documents containing...
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    English-style surnames became more widespread. The name evolved from the Common Brittonic name Lugubelinos, which was a compound of two names for Celtic deities...
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  • computer science). In historical linguistics, Σ is used to represent a Common Brittonic consonant with a sound between [s] and [h]; perhaps an aspirated [ʃʰ]...
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    Middle Irish) and the Brittonic languages (Welsh and Breton, descended from Common Brittonic). The other two, Cornish (Brittonic) and Manx (Goidelic),...
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  • Middle Welsh personal name meaning 'Princely Hound', stemming from Common Brittonic *Maglo-kunos, attested in Latin as Maglocunus. A number of Welsh kings...
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    of the Brittonic languages of Scotland survive to the modern day, though they have been reconstructed to a degree. The ancestral Common Brittonic language...
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    Caledonians (category Articles containing Common Brittonic-language text)
    would have been Pictish tribes speaking a language closely related to Common Brittonic, or a branch of it augmented by fugitive Brythonic resistance fighters...
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  • Welsh. The preceding period, from the time Welsh became distinct from Common Brittonic around 550, has been called "Primitive" or "Archaic Welsh". The phonology...
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    and Eburacum (in nominative form). The name Eboracum comes from the Common Brittonic *Eburākon, which means "yew tree place".<Hall 1996, p. 27; the wholly...
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    Cunobeline or Cunobelin (Common Brittonic: *Cunobelinos, "Dog-Strong"), also known by his name's Latin form Cunobelinus, was a king in pre-Roman Britain...
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    Carrick, Scotland (category Articles containing Common Brittonic-language text)
    - Guide to the Elements" (PDF). Scottish Place Name Society - The common Brittonic Language in the Old North. Retrieved 25 October 2018. Harper, Douglas...
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    Calgacus (category Articles containing Common Brittonic-language text)
    Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84. His name can be interpreted as Brittonic *calg-ac-os, 'possessing a blade', and is seemingly related to the Gaelic...
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  • Arthur. The name Teyrnon is widely acknowledged as deriving from the Common Brittonic *tigernonos, "great lord". A son is born in Arberth to Pwyll, Lord...
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    influence from Common Brittonic, and a number of possible Brittonicisms in English have been proposed, but whether most of these supposed Brittonicisms are actually...
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    The name Britain originates from the Common Brittonic term *Pritanī and is one of the oldest known names for Great Britain, an island off the north-western...
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    word *boudā 'victory', and that the correct spelling of the name in Common Brittonic (the British Celtic language) is Boudica, pronounced [boʊˈdiːkaː]....
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  • Proto-Baltic Proto-Slavic Proto-Celtic Common Brittonic Proto-Germanic Proto-Norse Proto-Italic Proto-Romance Common Romanian Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic...
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    Brigantes (category Articles containing Common Brittonic-language text)
    The Brigantes were Ancient Britons who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England. Their territory, often...
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  • United Kingdom. Brittonic languages, also known as the British Celtic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family Common Brittonic, an ancient...
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    Caledonia (category Articles containing Common Brittonic-language text)
    inland or northern Britain. The name is probably derived from a word in Common Brittonic. According to Zimmer (2006), Caledonia is derived from the tribal name...
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  • Cornish language (category Southwestern Brittonic languages)
    Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. Along with Welsh and Breton, Cornish is descended from the Common Brittonic language spoken...
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  • "cormorant"; literally "sea crow", from môr, "sea", and brân, "crow", from Common Brittonic *mori-brannos, as in French cormoran < L corvus marinus) is a figure...
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