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Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method.
Bibliography. Further reading. Proto-Celtic paganism was the beliefs of the speakers of Proto-Celtic and includes topics such as the mythology, legendry, folk tales, and folk beliefs of early Celtic culture.
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A newer theory, "Celtic from the West", suggests proto-Celtic arose earlier, was a lingua franca in the Atlantic Bronze Age coastal zone, and spread eastward. Another newer theory, "Celtic from the Centre", suggests proto-Celtic arose between these two zones, in Bronze Age Gaul, then spread in various directions. [11]
A new attempt at comprehensive Celtic etymology was not to appear until more than a century later. Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (2009) forms part of a series of etymological dictionaries for all Indo-European languages published under the aegis of the Department of IndoEuropean Studies at Leiden University.
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Jan 31, 2009 · Published 31 January 2009. Linguistics. TLDR. This is the first etymological dictionary of Proto-Celtic to be published after a hundred years, synthesizing the work of several generations of Celtic scholars and includes an appendix treating the probable loanwords from unknown non-IE substrates in Proto-celtic. Expand.
Contents. Proto-Celtic language. Also known as: Common Celtic. Learn about this topic in these articles: major reference. In Celtic languages: Common Celtic. The reconstruction of Common Celtic (or Proto-Celtic)—the parent language that yielded the various tongues of Continental Celtic and Insular Celtic—is of necessity very tentative.
Apr 10, 2020 · The Proto-Celtic language, also called Common Celtic, is the partially reconstructed ancestor language of all the known Celtic languages. Its lexis, or vocabulary, can be confidently reconstructed on the basis of the comparative method of historical linguistics, in the same manner as Proto-Indo-European or PIE, the ancient language which has ...
