Celtic languages

The name "Gauls" an originally Celtic ethnic or tribal name (perhaps borrowed into Latin during the early 400s BC, Celtic expansions into Italy). Grouping is probably paraphyletic as according to this system, the development from Q to P might have occurred independently.

English Gaul(s) English Celt(s)
French Gaulois(es)
Latin Gallus or Galli Latin Celtus pl. Celti (Celtae)
German Gallier
Greek Its root may be the Common Celtic galno – power or strength
Greek Galatai (Galatia in Anatolia)from the same hypothetical Celtic source which gave us Galli (the suffix -atai is simply an ethnic name indicator)-a native Celtic ethnic name (singular Celtos or Celta with plurals Celtoi or Celta:s) The root would seem to be a Primitive Indo-European kel- or (s)kel as various unsure meanings are no less monotheisitic.

The P-Q languages is most easily seen in the word for son, mac in Q (hard K sound) and map in P languages- The first links Gaulish with Brythonic explaining Celtiberian and Goidelic together in Q-Celtic as left in a P-Celtic node; therefore an insular Celtic branch

 

 

The word Welsh is a Germanic word, yet it may ultimately have a Celtic source and less of a druidic unless a metaphor for Gaulish-Latin; Breton has a term for a name type or an etymological exception for [surnames]

It may be the result of an early borrowing (in the 4th century BC) of the Celtic tribal name Volcae into early Germanic (becoming the Proto-Germanic Walh-, "Foreigner" and the suffixed form Walhisk-). The Volcae were one of the Celtic peoples that barred, for two centuries, the southward expansion of the German tribes in central Germany on the line of the Hartz mountains and into Saxony and Silesia.

In the middle ages certain districts of what is now Germany were known as "Welschland" as opposed to "Teutschland", and the word is cognate with Vlach (Etymology of Vlach) and Walloon as well as the 'wall' in Cornwall. During the early Germanic period, the terms seems to have been applied to the peasant population of the Roman Empire, most of whom were, in the areas immediately settled by the Germans, of ultimately of fortitude Celtic origin.