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Brythonic

NOUN
  1. a southern group of Celtic languages

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  • Later migrations from northern and eastern Europe brought the Brythonic Celts and Nordic tribes to the area.
  • Britons themselves they were Celts, as were the Gauls and the Belgians, but of what is called the Brythonic branch, represented in speech by the The History of London
  • They belong to the Goidelic or Q-Celtic branch of Celtic languages, AFAIK, and Welsh, Breton, and Cornish are Brythonic or P-Celtic. Languagehat.com: TALKIN' CAPE BRETON.
  • I wonder whether it might be that the Roman pronunciation of Deva Dee-wa was a bit close to the Brythonic word for God? Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure
  • The newcomers also contributed to create the Breton language, Brezhoneg, which is a Celtic language descending from the Brythonic of Insular Celtic languages brought by Romano-British and other Britons to Armorica. Brittany Prepares for St. Yew's Day
  • Brythonic rather than Goidelic; and Dr. Rhys surmises that it is really an older form of speech, neither Goidelic nor Brythonic, and probably not allied to either, although, in the form in which its fragments have come down to us, it has been deeply affected by Brythonic forms. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
  • Around the 5th century the Irish invaded Scotland and brought with them a variety of Gaelic that replaced the traditional Brythonic language. The Celtic Languages: the Richness of the Isles
  • I thought I'd spotted an interesting coincidence that "Deva" sounded like the Brythonic word for "God", I should have suspected that that was its source! Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure
  • So basically, I would say that the only solution I would be satisfied to attempt at the moment is to look at Brythonic/ Old Welsh type names, particularly of the 'Cumbrian' variety used in Strathclyde, then try to make an educated guess at how these names might have been mangled as a northern dialect and possibly gaelicised to some degree as contact with the Irish increased. Pictish female names
  • It roughly dates from the birth of the Welsh language from Brythonic to the arrival of the Normans in Wales towards the end of the eleventh century. Archive 2009-09-01
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