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CUMBRIC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
CUMBRIC. A Celtic language, akin to Old WELSH...until early medieval times. Most relics of Cumbric are place-names such as Pennersax in...commentators consider that garbled echoes of Cumbric survive in the Cumbric Score or sheep...
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CUMBRIA
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Westmorland, and LANCASHIRE North of the Sands. It includes the Lake District or Lakeland , home of the poet Wordsworth. CUMBRIC was spoken there until the 11c, OLD ENGLISH from the 7c, and NORSE in the 9–11c. Local place-names reflect...
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SCOTS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Northern English which had crystallized out of these sources (known to its speakers as Inglis ) had supplanted Gaelic and CUMBRIC , languages formerly spoken in much of what is now Lowland Scotland. In Caithness, Orkney, and Shetland, however, the...
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CELTIC LANGUAGES
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...The long decline In historical times, the British group has consisted of WELSH and Breton (which survive) and CORNISH , CUMBRIC , and perhaps Pictish (which are extinct). Breton, though a language of France, has no links with Continental Celtic...
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WELSH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...mutations occur, as in the noun ci (dog), where the initial sound is affected by the modifier, as in dy gi your dog, fy nghi my dog, ei chi her dog, and tri chi three dogs. See BORROWING CELTIC LANGUAGES, CUMBRIC , WELSH ENGLISH .
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Welsh language
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...advances westward led to the separate development of Brythonic Celtic in Wales, Cumbria, and Cornwall: only Welsh survives; Cumbric died out in the 11th cent. and Cornish in the 18th. At the same time, Welsh, the language of that part of Britain which...
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