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  2. Names of the Celts - Wikipedia

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    The various names used since classical times for the people known today as the Celts are of disparate origins.. The names Κελτοί (Keltoí) and Celtae are used in Greek and Latin, respectively, to denote a people of the La Tène horizon in the region of the upper Rhine and Danube during the 6th to 1st centuries BC in Graeco-Roman ethnography.

  3. List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes - Wikipedia

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    Very little is known about this language, Ligurian (mainly place names and personal names remain) which is generally believed to have been Celtic or Para-Celtic; [40] [41] (i.e. an Indo-European language branch not Celtic but more closely related to Celtic). They spoke ancient Ligurian. Alpini / Montani

  4. Celts - Wikipedia

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    Some figures in medieval Insular Celtic myth have ancient continental parallels: Irish Lugh and Welsh Lleu are cognate with Lugus, Goibniu and Gofannon with Gobannos, Macán and Mabon with Maponos, while Macha and Rhiannon may be counterparts of Epona. [200] In Insular Celtic myth, the Otherworld is a parallel realm where the gods dwell.

  5. Celtic onomastics - Wikipedia

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    The Irish family of de Courcy descends from Anglo-Normans who came to Ireland following the Norman Conquest; the name is of French derivation, and indicates that the family once held a manor of that name in Normandy. The de Courcy family was prominent in County Cork from the earliest days of the Norman occupation and subsequently became ...

  6. List of British place-names containing reflexes of Celtic ...

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    The word shares a root with the Germanic word that survives in English as heath.Both descend from a root */kait-/, which developed as Common Celtic */kaito-/ > Common Brittonic and Gaulish */kɛːto-/ > Old Welsh coit > Middle and Modern Welsh coed, Old Cornish cuit > Middle Cornish co(y)s > Cornish cos, Old Breton cot, coet > Middle Breton koed > Breton koad.

  7. Celtic toponymy - Wikipedia

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    Map of Celtic-influenced regions of Europe, in dark green 1 and 2 : regions where Celtic languages are attested from the Middle Ages until today Celtic toponymy is the study of place names wholly or partially of Celtic origin.

  8. Celtic Britons - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greeks called the people of Britain the Pretanoí or Bretanoí. [2] Pliny's Natural History (77 AD) says the older name for the island was Albion, [2] and Avienius calls it insula Albionum, "island of the Albions". [7] [8] The name could have reached Pytheas from the Gauls. [8] The Latin name for the Britons was Britanni. [2] [9]

  9. List of Celtic place names in Italy - Wikipedia

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    The third group includes Gallo-Roman land (rustic names of terrains) or predial toponyms, formed by an ancient anthroponym (but not always Celtic) and one of the Gaulish suffixes -ācum, -āca, -īcum, -īca. It is a group that was productive in the early Middle Ages too, when predials with Celtic suffix from Germanic anthroponyms were born.