Adjectives | Conjunctions | Pronouns | Verbs | People | Animals | Birds | Fish | Parts of the body | Colours | Numbers | Time expressions | Musical terms | Trees | Other words
A collection of Celtic cognates, with definitions, pronunciation, etymologies - includes the modern Celtic languages, older versions of these languages, such as Middle Welsh, Old Irish, and their extinct and reconstructed relatives and ancestors, including Gaulish, Celtiberian, Proto-Brythonic and Proto-Celtic.
Words marked with an asterisk are archaic and/or used only in place names. The Cornish words shown are in the Standard Written Form (Furv Skrifys Savonek) of Cornish. The Breton words are in Peurunvan/Modern Standard Spelling.
| Gaeilge (Irish) |
Gàidhlig (Gaelic) |
Gaelg (Manx) |
Cymraeg (Welsh) |
Kernewek (Cornish) |
Brezhoneg (Breton) |
English |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pobail | pobaill | pobbyl | pobl | pobel | pobl | people family tribe |
| muintir | muinntir | mooinjer | ||||
| teaghlach | teaghlach | thielagh | teulu | teylu | tiegezh | |
| slua | sluagh | sleih | llu | lu | lu | people horde force |
| duine | duine | dooinney | dyn | den | den | man husband person |
| fear | fear | fer | gŵr | gour | gour | |
| bean | bean | ben | benyw menyw |
ben benyn |
e-ben | woman wife |
| frac* | gwraig | gwrek | gwreg | |||
| mac | mac | mac | mab | mab | mab | son boy |
| iníon | nighean | inneen 'neen |
daughter girl |
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| smarach (lad) |
merch | myrgh | merc'h | |||
| buachaill | buachaill | bochilley | bugail | bugel | bugel | boy child shepherd |
| bard | bàrd | bard | bardd | bardh | barzh | bard poet |
| file | filidh | feelee | seer poet |
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| rí | rìgh | ree | rhi | ri* | king | |
| brenin | bretyn* bryntyn* |
brientin* | ||||
| mechdeyrn mychdeyrn machdeyrn |
metern myghtern |
machtiern* | ||||
| roue | ||||||
| tiarna | tighearna | çhiarn | teyrn | tern* | tiern | lord ruler king |
| cailleach | cailleach | caillagh | old woman hag witch |
|||
| frac* | gwrach | gwragh | gwrac'h | |||
| dochtúir | dotair | doghtoor | doctor physician surgeon healer |
|||
| lia | lèigh lighiche |
lhee | ||||
| meddyg | medhek | mezeg | ||||
| saor | saor | seyr | saer | ser | craftsman carpenter mason |
|
| dia | dia | jee | duw | duw | doue | god deity |
Adjectives | Conjunctions | Pronouns | Verbs | People | Animals | Birds | Fish | Parts of the body | Colours | Numbers | Time expressions | Musical terms | Trees | Other words
A collection of Celtic cognates, with definitions, pronunciation, etymologies - includes the modern Celtic languages, older versions of these languages, such as Middle Welsh, Old Irish, and their extinct and reconstructed relatives and ancestors, including Gaulish, Celtiberian, Proto-Brythonic and Proto-Celtic.
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Stòr-fhaclan Co-dhàimheil Ceilteach (Database of Celtic cognates)
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/scc/lorg.php
McBain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/
MAGUS: Multilingual Animal Glossary of Unveiled Synonyms
http://www.informatika.bf.uni-lj.si/magus-celtic&basque.html
Breton, Celtiberian, Cornish, Cumbric, Gaulish, Irish, Lepontic, Lusitanian, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Tartessian, Welsh
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