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To: SunkenCiv
Great stuff...thanks.

Is there any list of Pictish words that made it into the language? Or Celtic?

7 posted on 05/06/2009 6:36:49 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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To: Pharmboy

Whiskey is definitely Celtic ;)


8 posted on 05/06/2009 6:43:17 PM PDT by kamikaze2000
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“Galore”, as in “prizes galore” (or maybe even “loanwords galore”) which means “to repletion” comes from Scots Gaelic, and (it sez here) is the only adjective in English that properly precedes the noun. :’)


9 posted on 05/06/2009 6:43:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Pharmboy
"Is there any list of Pictish words that made it into the language? Or Celtic?"

Yes.

"Banshee" is one of very few, perhaps even the only one, that is known to have persisted from ancient times. "Avon", the name of the river in Stratford, made it as a proper noun only, from "afon" the common Celtic/Welsh noun for any river.

Most or all of the others are later loan words, either directly from medieval or modern Welsh, Cornish, Scots Gaelic or Irish Gaelic, or indirectly from proto-Celtic/Gaullic via Norman French or vulgar Latin.

-ccm

13 posted on 05/06/2009 7:02:22 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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Is there any list of Pictish words that made it into the language? Or Celtic?

Pixie. From "Pict-Sidhe" (Sidhe is pronounced "shee")

24 posted on 05/07/2009 3:17:03 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: Pharmboy

“Or Celtic?”

Donal (=Donald)


31 posted on 05/07/2009 6:11:51 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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