Celtic cognates - Music

This page contains musical terms and other music-related words in the six modern Celtic languages.

Click on the English versions that are links and you will be taken to theCeltiadur, where you can see what each word means, and how some of them are pronounced. There are also details of related words and expressions, and words in older versions of the Celtic languages, such as Middle Welsh and Old Irish.More Celtic Cognates

Musical terms and instruments

Celtic cognates

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Celtiadur

TheCeltiadur blog is a collection of Celtic cognates, with definitions, pronunciation, etymologies - includes the modern Celtic languages, older versions of these languages, such as Middle Welsh, Middle Breton and Old Irish, and their extinct and reconstructed relatives and ancestors, including Gaulish, Proto-Brythonic and Proto-Celtic.

Celtic Pathways

On theCeltic Pathways podcast I discuss connections between the Celtic languages, and look for words with Celtic roots in non-Celtic languages, such as English, French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese.

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Links

Stòr-fhaclan Co-dhàimheil Ceilteach (Database of Celtic cognates)
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/scc/lorg.php

McBain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/

• A comparison of the six modern Celtic languages
• Celtic cognates - words that are similar in the Celtic languages
• Celtiadur - a dictionary of Celtic cognates

Information about Celtic languages

Breton,Celtiberian,Cornish,Cumbric,Gaulish,Irish,Lepontic,Lusitanian,Manx,Scottish Gaelic,Welsh

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