MOESAN
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- Location
- Brittany
- Ethnic group
- more celtic
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b - L21/S145*
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H3c
it is just for the pleasure - some evident enough links between celtic words
on left: gaelic (irish, + sometimes scotland gaelic); in front: translation in english + between crochets: breton and welsh, rarely cornish, and in italics, latine or romance words or others languages words (I-E!) with apparent link - it is not a scholar work but it could help people not very used to celtic languages: by example the albanian speakers who are looking for comparisons, like my friend Kamani - they could see the more common changes between gaelic and brythonic, and other languages of Europe... just for the fun and it is free!
&: cornish is between breton and welsh, but shows a very astonishing evolution: -d in final position is turned into -s /s/ --> /z/ in long syllabes - sometimes before endings beginning with vowels the words of this kind hesitates between -s- /z/ and -j /dzh/ (english pronounciation)
[TD="width: 208"] -oireacht [/TD]
[TD="width: 595"] -ery, -ing, ... (-erezh, -wraeth) [/TD]
the other words I noted will follow...
on left: gaelic (irish, + sometimes scotland gaelic); in front: translation in english + between crochets: breton and welsh, rarely cornish, and in italics, latine or romance words or others languages words (I-E!) with apparent link - it is not a scholar work but it could help people not very used to celtic languages: by example the albanian speakers who are looking for comparisons, like my friend Kamani - they could see the more common changes between gaelic and brythonic, and other languages of Europe... just for the fun and it is free!
&: cornish is between breton and welsh, but shows a very astonishing evolution: -d in final position is turned into -s /s/ --> /z/ in long syllabes - sometimes before endings beginning with vowels the words of this kind hesitates between -s- /z/ and -j /dzh/ (english pronounciation)
| a-mach, a-muigh | out(side) (er-maes, i ma(e)s) |
| a-nochd (Alban?) | to night, this evening (hennoazh, nuit, noch, noite, noct-) |
| ab | abbott (abad, abad, abas, abbé, abbato...) |
| abair | to say (eme, ebe ? ) |
| abhainn | river (aven/aon, afon) |
| adhradh, aoradh | adoration (azeuliñ, addoli, adorer) |
| aibî | ripe (azw, aeddfed?) |
| aigead | acid (acide) |
| aimsir | wheather (amzer) |
| aingeal | angel (ael, angel, ange(l)) |
| ainm | name (anw, enw, nom, nome, nomine, naam, namn, onom-) |
| ainmhî, ainmhidh | animal (aneval, anifail, animal) |
| air | on (àr*, ar # war) |
| altôir, altair | altar (aoter, allor, autel) |
| ancaire, acair | anchor |
| aontu | accord (a du = « un tu ») |
| àr >> èirleach | carnage (aer*, aer(-fa)) |
| ard | hill (aod, aot, allt, haut, alto?) |
| arm | weapon (arm, arf, arme, arma) |
| asal | ass (asen, asyn, âne, osiel...) |
| ascaill | armpit (askell, asgell) |
| bàbôg | doll (babig, baban, baby) |
| bacadh | restraining (bac'h, bach) |
| bachall | crook (bac'h-krog? ) |
| bagh | bay (bae, bae, baie, baia...) |
| bailbhe | dumbness (balp, balb-utier) |
| bailgean, bailgfhionn | pie-bald, whitebellied (bolc'h + gwenn) |
| bàim, bàth | to drown (beuziñ, boddi?) |
| bainbh | young pig (banw, banw) |
| baird, bard | bard (barzh, bardd, barde) |
| balbh | mute (balp, balbutier) |
| balla, falla | wall (vall << vallum?) |
| barc | bark 2 (ship) (barque, barca) |
| barr | tip, top, end, extremity (barr) |
| bata 1 | stick (bazh, >> battre?) |
| bata 2 | boat (bateau, boot, boot) |
| bathach | cowhouse (beudy? booth?) |
| bathadh | drowning (beuziñ, boddi) |
| beach | bee |
| beachan | wasp (bee) |
| beag | little (bihan, bychan) |
| beannachd | blessing (bennozh, bendith, béni, bénédict, benedetto) |
| beannaich | to bless, to salute, to hail (bennozh, bendith) |
| beart | act (berzh? >> ober berzh) |
| beàs | custom (boas?) |
| beir | to bear |
| beô | alive (bew, byw – to be, bio) |
| beoir | beer (bir/bier, birra) |
| beol, béal/beul | lip, mouth (bab-ine?) |
| bia, biadh, beatha/biodh | food (boued, bwyd, bôs) |
| bideach (Norzh Alban?) | little, small (bidoc'h?) |
| bile | tree (bill, bille) |
| binn | melodious, harmonious (binioù?) |
| biolar, biolair | water-cress (beler, berwr) |
| bior | spit (bir, bêr) |
| bith | existance, beeing (buhez, buchedd) |
| bladhm | flame (flamme) |
| blas | taste (blas, blas) |
| blasta | sweet (blasus, blasus) |
| blàth 1 | flower (bleuñv/bleu, blodau, fleur, flora, bloom, bloem, blum, blom) |
| bliain, bliadhain | year (bloaz, blwyddyn/blynydd-) |
| blonag | fat (n.) (bloneg, bloneg!) |
[TD="width: 208"] -oireacht [/TD]
[TD="width: 595"] -ery, -ing, ... (-erezh, -wraeth) [/TD]
the other words I noted will follow...