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BRITTANIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A southern group of Celtic languages
Synonyms:
Brittanic; Brythonic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Brittanic" is a kind of...):
Celtic; Celtic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Brittanic"):
Cymric; Welsh (a Celtic language of Wales)
Cornish (a Celtic language spoken in Cornwall)
Breton (a Celtic language of Brittany)