12-23-2013, 08:44 AM
It is interesting that Italic and Celtic both had Q and P forms - ie in Irish 'head' is ceann (Q form) whilst in Welsh it is pen (P form). Latin was Q Italic, whilst Sabine/Samnite was P.
Gaulish was very probably closely related to British Celtic (Old Brythonic), we know that Gaulish people trained in druidism in Britain and a number of chieftains (Commius) and tribes (Attrebates Parisii) were found both in northern Gaul and Britain.
However, in the 6th-7th centuries Brythonic became Early Welsh and the language changed very considerably. Pronunciation altered and the use of word endings to indicate inflections (as in Latin) was largely replaced by changes to word order in a sentence or to word beginnings - ie cunus ('dog' - Lat. canis) became cyn or gwn, and the word for 'big' or 'great' (Brythonic - maglos) could be either vawr or mawr depending on grammatical use. Therefore modern Celtic languages are only of limited use as paradigms for ancient Celtic language forms.
Gaulish was very probably closely related to British Celtic (Old Brythonic), we know that Gaulish people trained in druidism in Britain and a number of chieftains (Commius) and tribes (Attrebates Parisii) were found both in northern Gaul and Britain.
However, in the 6th-7th centuries Brythonic became Early Welsh and the language changed very considerably. Pronunciation altered and the use of word endings to indicate inflections (as in Latin) was largely replaced by changes to word order in a sentence or to word beginnings - ie cunus ('dog' - Lat. canis) became cyn or gwn, and the word for 'big' or 'great' (Brythonic - maglos) could be either vawr or mawr depending on grammatical use. Therefore modern Celtic languages are only of limited use as paradigms for ancient Celtic language forms.
Martin
Fac me cocleario vomere!
Fac me cocleario vomere!
