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  2. Goidelic substrate hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Ireland was settled, like the rest of northern Europe, after the retreat of the ice sheets c. 10,500 BC. [1] Indo-European languages are usually thought to have been a much later arrival. Some scholars hypothesize that the Goidelic languages may have been brought by the Bell Beaker culture circa 2500 BC.

  3. Goidelic languages - Wikipedia

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    Gaelic, by itself, is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic, especially in Scotland, and therefore is ambiguous.Irish and Manx are sometimes referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic (as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages), but the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when used to denote languages, always refer to those languages.

  4. English loanwords in Irish - Wikipedia

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    English oven is from Old English ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz. Dé (a term used before names of days of the week , as in Dé hAoine , " Friday "), is a false cognate : it derives from Latin dies , which is from Proto-Italic * djēm , PIE * dyḗws ("heaven"), while English "day" is from Old English dæġ , from Proto-Germanic * dagaz .

  5. Insular Celtic languages - Wikipedia

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    In Scottish Gaelic this distinction is still found in certain verb-forms across almost all verbs (except for a very few). This is a VSO language. The example given in the first column below is the independent or absolute form, which must be used when the verb is in clause-initial position (or preceded in the clause by certain preverbal particles).

  6. Languages of the Isle of Man - Wikipedia

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    The English language has replaced Manx as the dominant language on the island. The native dialect is known as Anglo-Manx or Manx English, and has been employed by a number of the island's more notable writers such as T.E. Brown and "Cushag". which distinguishes itself by considerable influence and a large number of loanwords and phrases from Manx Gaelic.

  7. List of English words of Scots origin - Wikipedia

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    Also Northern English. From English can in older sense of "to know how." clan Borrowed from Gaelic clann (family, stock, off-spring). cosy firth Derived from Old Icelandic fjǫrdic (see fjord) glamour Meaning magic, enchantment, spell. From English grammar and Scottish gramarye (occult learning or scholarship). gloaming

  8. Scottish Gaelic - Wikipedia

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    New learners of Gaelic often have a positive affective stance to their language learning, and connect this learning journey towards Gaelic language revitalization. [59] The mismatch of these language ideologies, and differences in affective stance, has led to fewer speaking opportunities for adult language learners and therefore a challenge to ...

  9. List of French words of Gaulish origin - Wikipedia

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    The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...