Brythonic Synonyms

brĭ-thŏnĭk
A southern group of Celtic languages
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Brittanic

Words Related to Brythonic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. brittonic
  2. goidelic
  3. p-celtic
  4. cumbric
  5. pre-celtic

Brythonic Sentence Examples

  • In Roman times the eastern half of the county formed part of the territory of the Silures, a pre-Celtic race, whose governing class at that time probably consisted of Brythonic Celts.

  • That they were non-Aryan, the theory of Sir John Rhys, seems improbable; for the non-English placenames of Scotland are either Gaelic or Brythonic (more or less Welsh), and the names of Pictish kings are either common to Gaelic and Welsh (or Cymric, or Brythonic), or are Welsh in their phonetics.

  • In the Goidelic group qu appears as c, thus Irish cethir, " four "; in the Brythonic group it is changed into p, as in Welsh pedwar, " four."

  • In Brythonic, primitive Celtic qu became p, as above noted.

  • The development of Brythonic into Welsh is analogous to that of Latin into French.

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