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Definition of Brythonic
1. Noun. A southern group of Celtic languages.
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
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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