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According to the OED 'apparently of Celtic origin: compare Irish and Gaelic creag, Manx creg, cregg, Welsh craig rock. None of these, however, exactly gives the English crag, cragg '. [13] Celtic (OED1) common. doe. Possibly from a Brittonic root *da-, [14] but could also be from Latin. Latin dāma (OED1) technical.
Comment. "Brittonic" is more Latinate and less Cambro-centric, since the alternate form commonly used by scholars, Brythonic, is derived from the Welsh word Brython "Briton", itself an ancient borrowing from Latin nominative singular Brittō (more precisely, an oblique singular Britton-) or nominative plural Brittones.
Category. : Southwestern Brittonic languages. Articles relating to the Southwestern Brittonic languages, Brittonic Celtic languages spoken in what is now South West England (later confined to Cornwall ), and Armorica (later confined to Brittany) now in France, since the Early Middle Ages .
Common Brittonic (also called Common Brythonic, British, Old Brythonic, or Old Brittonic) was an ancient language spoken in Britain. It was the language of the Celtic people known as the Britons. By the 6th century it split into several Brittonic languages: Welsh, Cumbric, Cornish, and Breton . Common Brittonic is descended from Proto-Celtic, a ...
The language eventually began to diverge; some linguists have grouped subsequent developments as Western and Southwestern Brittonic languages. Western Brittonic developed into Welsh in Wales and the Cumbric language in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain (modern northern England and southern Scotland), while the Southwestern dialect became Cornish in Cornwall and South West England and ...
Articles relating to the Western Brittonic languages, two dialects into which Common Brittonic split during the Early Middle Ages. Western Brittonic languages were spoken in Wales and the Hen Ogledd, or "Old North", an area of northern England and southern Scotland.
Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
