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单词 pre-celtic
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pre-Celtic
pre-Celtic adj.
Brit. /(ˌ)priːˈkɛltɪk/
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/(ˌ)priːˈsɛltɪk/
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U.S. /ˌpriˈkɛltɪk/
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/ˌpriˈsɛltɪk/
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pre-Celtic1854
1854 J. C. Nott & G. R. Gliddon Types of Mankind i. iii. 91 The Pre-Celtic researches of Wilson, among the peat-bogs of the British Isles, have carried the existence of man in England and Scotland back to ages immensely remote.
1934 S. Robertson Devel. Mod. Eng. (1936) ii. 18 The pre-Hellenic inhabitants of Greece..were not Indo-European, nor were the Etruscans in Italy, the pre-Celtic peoples who inhabited Britain, or the Basques in Spain.
2004 Prediction Apr. 11/1 The ‘people of the bogs’ are thought to be an Irish pre-Celtic and rather primitive race called the Firbolgs.
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