Celtologuen.
/ˈkɛltəlɒɡ/, /ˈsɛltəlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈkɛltəˌlɔɡ/, /ˈsɛltəˌlɔɡ/, /ˈkɛltəˌlɑɡ/, /ˈsɛltəˌlɑɡ/ Now rare.
A student of or expert in Celtic languages and philology.In later use, typically used as a conscious archaism with reference to scholars of the 19th cent.
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occidentalist1859
Celtologist1860
Celtologue1884
Indianist1922
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic > student of Celtic
Celticist1831
Celtist1831
Celtologist1860
Celtologue1884
1884 Academy 29 Nov. 358/2 Every Celtologue knew, from the syncope of the posttonic vowels, that the Old-Irish noun..was accented on the first syllable.
1906 Catholic World Mar. 786 Not only were all the hearers Celtologues, but they were Celts themselves, all but one being bretonnantes, that is, Breton speakers.
1923 S. Leslie Doomsland xxvi. 357 He threw himself into every circle of thought that lapped or interlapped, the literate, the ecclesiastical, the Celtologues, when he could find them (Brittany bred most).
1991 S. Ó Lúing Kuno Meyer vii. 69 He naturally wrote in German to his fellow Celtologues in Germany.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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