Definition of Brythonic

1. Noun. A southern group of Celtic languages.

Exact synonyms: Brittanic
Generic synonyms: Celtic, Celtic Language
Specialized synonyms: Cymric, Welsh, Cornish, Breton

Definition of Brythonic

1. Proper noun. A Celtic language. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the Brythonic language subgroup, a set of Celtic languages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brythonic

Bryant's sign
Bryant's traction
Bryant's triangle
Bryanthus taxifolius
Bryce
Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryn
Brynhild
Bryon
Bryonia alba
Bryonia dioica
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryson
Brython
Brythonic
Brythons
Bryum
Brønsted-Lowry acid
Brønsted-Lowry acids
Brønsted-Lowry base
Brønsted-Lowry bases
Brønsted acid
Brønsted base
Bsp6I methyltransferase
Bt2cAMP
BuSpar
Bua
Buarainech
Bubalus

Literary usage of Brythonic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of English History edited by Frederick Sanders Pulling, Sidney Low (1896)
"Some recent inquirers have regarded them as Goidelic in race, and therefore to be distinguished sharply from their British (brythonic) neighbours. ..."

2. A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest by John Edward Lloyd (1912)
"317-88), archaeologists are now disposed to regard the Belgic settlement as a late brythonic invasion of about 150 BC "Bell. Gall. v. ..."

3. Keltic Researches: Studies in the History and Distribution of the Ancient by Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1904)
"Middle Pictish' would cover the same period as ' Middle Irish', and for Neo-Pictish ' Highland Gaelic ' may of course continue to be used. 'brythonic' ..."

4. History of Scotland to the Present Time by Peter Hume Brown (1911)
"The second people in possession of the country were brythonic Celts, a remnant of the race who had formed the main population of Britain at the coming of ..."

5. Celtic Britain by John Rhys (1904)
"... show what portions of the island were occupied by the brythonic and the Goidelic Celts respectively, about the beginning, say, of the Roman occupation. ..."

6. The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga by Kuno Meyer, Dindsenchas, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Scél Túan maic Cairill (1897)
"... Arthur, and Finn, discussion of their relation to each other, and of the relations between Goidelic and brythonic heroic myth—Reconstitution of the ..."

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