单词 | goidelic |
释义 | Goidelicadj.n. A. adj. ΚΠ 1869 Jrnl. Hist. & Archæol. Assoc. Ireland 1 288 The non-metrical, like the metrical Goedelic poem, has various forms. 1888 F. P. Barnard Strongbow's Conquest Irel. App. 205 The Annals of Innisfallen..are believed to have been begun about A. D. 1000, and are in the Goidelic tongue with an intermixture of Latin. 2. Designating the Celtic languages of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, in which the Indo-European voiceless labiovelar stop (the sound typically represented in modern written English by qu) was initially retained, later losing its labial character to develop into the voiceless velar stop k; of or relating to (one of) these languages; (of a literary composition, speech, etc.) written or spoken in one of these languages. Cf. Q-Celtic adj. Frequently contrasted with Brittonic adj. and (in early use) Cymric adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Celtic > other Pictish1581 Doric1621 Gadhelic1775 Celtiberian1845 Goidelic1874 Q-Celtic1892 1874 J. Rhŷs in Liverpool Mercury 26 Dec. 5/6 Some have asserted that our sixth century inscriptions are Goidelic. 1928 Mod. Lang. Rev. 23 131 The Brythonic languages lack formal distinctions which the Goidelic languages preserve. 1955 Eng. Hist. Rev. 70 142 The speculations on Goedelic and Brittonic speech..might well be reconsidered in a second edition. 1980 Canad. Jrnl. Irish Stud. 6 67 As for the insular Celtic languages.., they are in turn subject to the well-known division into two branches, namely the Goidelic languages and the Brythonic languages. 2009 M. Fry Edinburgh i. 15 The earliest Goidelic literature, the Ulster Cycle, takes us back to this late Iron Age. 3. Of, relating to, or associated with the speakers of the Goidelic languages, considered as a cultural or ethnic group, or their culture. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [adjective] > Gaels Erse1425 Scots?c1450 Gaedhelian1724 Gadhelica1773 Dalriadan1788 Dalriadic1789 Gaelic1807 Dalriad1811 Goidelic1874 1874 Liverpool Mercury 26 Dec. 5/5 Pre-historic Welsh may be said to have ranged from the time when the ancestors of the Kimric and the Goidelic nations could no longer be regarded as forming one nation. 1896 H. Maxwell Hist. Dumfries & Galloway ii. 32 Novantia, however, remained Pictish,—i.e. Goidelic—in speech and race. 1935 Irish Times 25 May 7/2 These Teutons..married into the vastly more numerous races, the Goidelic and Pictish peoples. 1992 Proc. Harvard Celtic Colloquium 12 184 In the figure of Morgan le Fay separate Brythonic and Goidelic traditions arising from an earlier Celtic water goddess converged. 2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 23 Feb. (Features section) 22 The country [sc. Scotland] takes its name from the Scotti, a Latin name ascribed to a Goidelic tribe from Ireland. B. n. ΚΠ 1869 Jrnl. Hist. & Archæol. Assoc. Ireland 1 289 There be three similar standards of expression with the filis of the Goedelic. 1874 Jrnl. Royal Hist. & Archæol. Assoc. Ireland 3 119 In some passages the old Norse and the old Goedelic are verbum verbo identical. 2. The group of Celtic languages of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, in which the Indo-European voiceless labiovelar stop (the sound typically represented in modern written English by qu) was initially retained, later losing its labial character to develop into the voiceless velar stop k, frequently regarded as having previously existed as a single language; = Q-Celtic n. Frequently contrasted with Brittonic n. and (in early use) Cymric adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic > Goidelic Gaelic1781 Goidelic1877 Q1891 Q-Celtic1919 1877 J. Rhŷs Lect. Welsh Philol. i. 34 They could no longer be said to speak one language, but two nearly related languages, Goidelic in Ireland, and Kymric here. 1891 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. I. vii. 264 The Celtic branch may be divided into the Cymric and Goidelic. 1935 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 1 545 From a study of place-names we learn that Goidelic was once spoken largely in Germany and North France. 1972 Studia Celtica Japonica 4 6 Goidelic consists of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. 2017 Handbk. Compar. & Hist. Indo-European Linguistics II. xi. 1270 Most of the linguistic developments that distinguish Goidelic from Brittonic and their respective daughter languages from each other are phonological. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1869 |
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