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- proper noun The
putative ancestor of all the knownCeltic languages.
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Examples
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"The reflexes we have are OIr mil, Welsh mēl, Breton mel; these, along with Irish milis "sweet," point to a root *meliss, where the -s instead of t is representative of a common sound change already complete in Proto-Celtic."
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At any rate, the -t - -s change in Proto-Celtic is apparently a fairly early one.
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Again, Proto-Germanic appears to be contemporaneous with Proto-Celtic.
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Cimmerians are based off the Cimbri, a Proto-Celtic peoples.
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Glen Gordon: Yet Proto-Celtic is generally dated only to circa 1000 BCE give or take a few centuries, just as the Etrusco-Rhaetic are first making their way into Italy.
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Yet Proto-Celtic is generally dated only to circa 1000 BCE give or take a few centuries, just as the Etrusco-Rhaetic are first making their way into Italy.
My sweet honey bee 2010
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Again, Proto-Germanic appears to be contemporaneous with Proto-Celtic.
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By this time Proto-Celtic has already broken up, and Insular Celtic has already split off.
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Scots English Mac - ` son of 'is not derived from Gaulish mapo ` son' but from Gaelic mac, although both forms are from Proto-Celtic \?
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Rather, both are derived from Proto-Celtic * dubno - ` world. '
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