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Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
A list of English Language words derived from the Celtic Gaulish language, entering English via Old Frankish or Vulgar Latin and Old French. ambassador from Old French embassadeur, from Latin ambactus, from Gaulish *ambactos, "servant", "henchman", "one who goes about". [1] basin Perhaps originally Gaulish via Vulgar Latin and Old French [2] battle
These are, for example, Common Brittonic, Gaulish, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, or other languages. Lists of English words derived from Celtic language List of ...
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 ...
This is a list of Galician words of Celtic origin, many of them being shared with Portuguese (sometimes with minor differences) since both languages are from medieval Galician-Portuguese. A few of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from a Celtic source, usually Gaulish , while others have been later received from other languages, mainly ...
Pages in category "Gaulish language" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is the most comprehensive publication on Gaulish words, with more than 800 terms in alphabetical order, derived from Gaulish–Greek, Gaulish–Etruscan, Gaulish–Latin, or solely Gaulish inscriptions, printed classical languages, coins, and some terms of Celtic substrate in Occitan. He presents all cases of appearance of toponyms and ...
Endlicher's Glossary (Latin: De nominibus Gallicis) is a glossary composed of eighteen lines of Gaulish words, mainly to do with regional placenames, translated into Latin. There are seven surviving copies of it, with the oldest dating to the 8th century. It is named after Stephan Endlicher who first described it in 1836.