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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...
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...
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...
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 .
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...
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...

Dictionary entries related to "cumbric"

Welsh language
Book article from: A Dictionary of 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. Those who used this language called themselves Cymry (fellow‐...

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A Celtic etymology for maggle "to spoil" in Dunbar and Gavin Douglas.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...language of much of southern Scotland was Cumbric, a Celtic language allied to Welsh...Peebles, Tranent, and Melrose are all of Cumbric origin (Barrow 33). Hence ordinary...of obscure etymology may also be from Cumbric, including maggle. Does the history...
A Celtic Etymology for Scots Gully "Large Knife".
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...this is so, gully must be a loan from Cumbric, a Brittonic language spoken in Strathclyde...is often said that little survives of Cumbric except certain place names in southern...9-10). But gully suggests ordinary Cumbric words might also have passed into English...
The date of the Ruthwell Cross inscription. (Essays).
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...remained in British hands for nearly two centuries. Speakers of Cumbric reoccupied the Dumfries region, north Cumberland, and part...an inscription in English after the British conquest, when Cumbric-speaking settlers had seized lands in the neighborhood...
Was ancient Welsh poet right about the legend of the lynx?(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/12/2005; 700+ words ; ...older forms of Welsh words that were originally written in Cumbric - a language related to Welsh that was once widely spoken in...not the usual Welsh names and are obviously the forms used in Cumbric,' said Dr Koch. Sixth-century poet Aneirin compiled his...
Quick Quiz.
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 7/3/2009; 442 words ; ...What connects the actors Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton and Anthony Quinn? 10.Chemakum, Akkadian, Carian, Illinois, Cumbric and Hadramautic are all examples of what? 1. Barack Oba m a ;2. Nasal septum; 3. Brothers in Arms have all played the...
The dialect position of the Old English Orosius.
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...together with a form Cwoespatrik from 1254 as showing what Anglo-Saxons would be likely to write for Old Welsh (in this case Cumbric) Gw-, is a red herring, not only because of the wassenas in the same writ, but because of the fundamentally different...
Dales find leads to call for return of wild lynx
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 10/10/2005; 700+ words ; ...co-author. He said there is no longer any reason to doubt translations of seventh century poem Pais Dinogad, written in Cumbric, a Celtic language once spoken in much of northern England. The poem appeared to refer to hunting lynx - possibly for its...
Call for Welsh to revert to original British.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...problem with calling the language Welsh is that this strongly implies it was only ever spoken in Wales. Other labels, such as Cumbric and Cornish, attached to historic variants of the same language, also tend to mask the fact that at one time Welsh was spoken...
Were the Scots Irish?(migration theory, Scotland and Ireland, historical research)(Illustration)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Irish/Scottish Gaelic branch of Celtic (Q-Celtic), and Brittonic for the British group including Welsh, Pictish and Cumbric (P-Celtic). After a period of virulent sectarian debate on the origins of the Scots in the 18th and 19th centuries (Ferguson...