Adjectives | Animals | Birds | Colours | Conjunctions | Food and Drink | Musical terms | Numbers | Time expressions | Parts of the body | People | Pronouns | Sea creatures | Trees | Verbs | Weather | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crann | crann | croan | pren | pren | prenn | tree wood bush branch timber |
| craobh | craobh | crouw | ||||
| bile | bile | billey | ||||
| fiodh | fiodh | fuygh | gwŷdd | gwydh | gwez | wood trees timber forest |
| coed | koos | koad | ||||
| beith | beith | beih | bedw | besewen | bezv | birch |
| coll | coll calltainn |
coull | coll | koll | kelvez | hazel |
| cuileann | cuileann | cullyn | celyn(en) | kelyn(nen) | kelen(enn) | holly |
| dair doire |
dair darach |
darragh darrag |
dâr derw(en) |
dar derw(en) |
derv | oak |
| fearnóg | feàrna | farney | gwern | gwern | gwern | alder |
| fuinseog | fuinnseag uinnseann |
unjin | onn | onn | onn | ash |
| iúr | iubhar iùbhar |
euar | efwr ewr |
evor | evor | yew hogweed alder |
| eó | eo | iodh | yw | ewin | iwin ivin |
|
| leamhán | leamhan | lhiouan | llwyf | elow | evlec'h | elm linden lime |
| saileach | seileach | shellagh | helygen (sg) helyg (pl) |
helygen (sg) helyk (pl) |
halegenn (sg) haleg (pl) |
willow |
Geirfa Natur (Nature Glossary) - words for animals, birds, fish and other creatures in the modern Celtic language (Excel format, provided by Gwyn Harrison)
Adjectives | Animals | Birds | Colours | Conjunctions | Food and Drink | Musical terms | Numbers | Time expressions | Parts of the body | People | Pronouns | Sea creatures | Trees | Verbs | Weather | 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/
Breton, Celtiberian, Cornish, Cumbric, Gaulish, Irish, Lepontic, Lusitanian, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Tartessian, Welsh
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