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It is a vocal tradition (kan ha diskan translates from Breton as, roughly, call and response singing). The style is the most commonly used to accompany dances. It has become perhaps the most integral part of the Breton roots revival, and was the first genre of Breton music to gain some mainstream success, both in Brittany and abroad.
Catholicon (from Greek Καθολικόν 'universal') is a 15th-century dictionary written in Breton, French, and Latin. It is the first Breton dictionary and also the first French dictionary. It contains six thousand entries and was compiled in 1464 by the Breton priest Jehan Lagadeuc . It was printed in 1499 in Tréguier.
But OED frowns on this, and there is no evidence of such a word in Celtic unless later words in Irish and Welsh, sometimes counted as borrowings from English, are original. [7] Unknown (OED Online) common beck: Agricultural implement with two hooks. Etymologised in the OED as from a 'Celtic root bacc-' (possibly via French). [8]
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The English words dolmen and menhir have been borrowed from French, which took them from Breton. However, this is uncertain: for instance, menhir is peulvan or maen hir ("long stone"), maen sav ("straight stone") (two words: noun + adjective) in Breton. Dolmen is a misconstructed word (it should be taol-vaen).
The groagez are the fairies most often encountered in Brittany, [2] generally in forests and near springs: [6] they are essentially the fairies of Breton wells. [7] Likewise, a certain number of "sea fairies" bear the name of groac'h, [3] sometimes interchangeably with those of "morgen" or "siren". [8]
Leiden's medical fragment is doubtless not typically Breton in the subject: it is a question of ancient or medieval Latin recipes that are constantly being copied in monasteries. Some examples of the Breton words found in the manuscript: aball: apple; barr: branch; caes: search; colænn: holly; dar: oak; guern: alder tree; hisæl-barr ...
Pen gwyn is identical in Cornish and in Breton. An alternative etymology links the word to Latin pinguis, which means "fat". In Dutch, the alternative word for penguin is "fat-goose" (vetgans see: Dutch wiki or dictionaries under Pinguïn), and would indicate this bird received its name from its appearance. Mither