Celtic cognates - Prepositions

This page contains adjectives that are cognate in all or most of the six modern Celtic languages.

Click on the English versions that are links and you will be taken to the Celtiadur, where you can see what each word means, and how some of them are pronounced. There are also details of related words and expressions, and words in older versions of the Celtic languages, such as Middle Welsh and Old Irish. More Celtic Cognates

Prepositions

These words are cognate in all six Celtic languages.

Gaeilge
(Irish)		 Gàidhlig
(Gaelic)		 Gaelg
(Manx)		 Cymraeg
(Welsh)		 Kernewek
(Cornish)		 Brezhoneg
(Breton)		 English
as à ass ech a ech* from
out of
ar air er ar war war on
in
at
foai fo fo go g(w)o* gou under(neath)
below
fré* ri rish wrth orth oc'h to
during
beside
against
trí tre trooid trwy dre(s) dre through
over
across

These words are cognate in some of the Celtic languages.

Gaeilge
(Irish)		 Gàidhlig
(Gaelic)		 Gaelg
(Manx)		 Cymraeg
(Welsh)		 Kernewek
(Cornish)		 Brezhoneg
(Breton)		 English
chuig thuig hug — — — to
toward
at
for
chun chùm chum — — — to
toward(s)
for
do do da — — — for
to
unto
go gu dy — — — until
to
sith sith — hyd hys hed until
length
long
— — — rhag (a-)rag rak before
in front of
roimh ro ro
roish		 — — — before
in front
— — — tan
dan
a dan		 yn-dann dan under
below

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Celtiadur

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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