Celtic


2Celtic

noun

Definition of CELTIC

: a group of Indo-European languages usually subdivided into Brythonic and Goidelic and now largely confined to Brittany, Wales, Ireland, and the Scottish Highlands — see indo-european languages table

First Known Use of CELTIC

1739

Other Language Terms

cognate, collocation, homonym

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