Example sentences for: celtic

How can you use “celtic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While heath, heather , and ling represent the Germanic input into English, only grig (Cornish) has made it directly from Celtic into English.

  • The term Indo-European cropped up first at the beginning of the 19th century; as much of the work was being done in Germany, it is not surprising that the term preferred there was Indo-Germanic , actually a translation of indogermanisch (with a small i because it is an adjective), which arose in the late 1820s; the latter survives in the literature, largely replaced by the former, especially since the discovery that Celtic is a member of the family.

  • Celtic Pride

  • The Celtic tongue, later to be overwhelmed by Anglo-Saxon, contained only a few Latin words, most of them place names and none of legal import, outlived the occupation.

  • The - don is almost certainly not Old English denu valley (as it is in Croydon , wild saffron valley) or dūn hill (as it is in Huntingdon huntsman's hill), but probably represents an integral part of some pre-Celtic name.


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