Brittonic

[ bri-ton-ik ]

adjective

1. Brythonic.

Brittonic

/ brɪˈtɒnɪk /

noun

1. another word for Brythonic

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brittonic¹

< Late Latin Brittōn ( ēs ) ( Briton ) + -ic

Example Sentences

Now 36 years old, she is one of a handful of people that can claim to be a native Cornish speaker, although she was raised in Wales and released her first solo album mostly in Welsh, Cornish’s Brittonic cousin.

From Economist

She decided to begin further back, and work with the Brittonic stories of mythic sunken cities such as Lyonesse, recorded in Arthurian legend as having once bordered Cornwall.

From Economist

Cornish is a language descended from the Brittonic widely spoken in Britain before Anglo-Saxon invaders and their early English came to dominate.

From Economist

Perhaps to what in England would be called the Chaucerian era, perhaps to never: has a complicated and sometimes uncertain linguistic story that includes Norse and the Northumbrian variant of Old English in the east, as well as the Gaelic that arrived with Irish migrants in the south-west, all of them eventually replacing a form of Celtic or Brittonic language that still survives in contemporary Welsh.

From The Guardian