Pre-Modern European Migrations the Celts Part 3 - By Dr. Lizabeth Johnson
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Pre-modern European Migrations:Celtic Migrations• Evidence of Celtic migration• Languages and place names• Material culture• Religion and mythology• Social organization
Pre-modern European Migrations:Celtic Migrations• Linguistic evidence of migration• Indo-European• Common Celtic developed circa 1000 BC• Spoken in Hallstatt and early La Tene areas• Gaulish in France, Lepontic in northern Italy, Celtiberian and Lusitanian
in Spain• P and Q Celtic (Brythonic and Goidelic respectively) developed c. 500 BC• P Celtic spoken in France (extinct), Wales, Brittany, and Cornwall• Q Celtic spoken in Spain and northeastern Italy (extinct), Ireland,
Scotland, and the Isle of Man
Indo-European
Germanic
English and modern Germanic languages
Romance/Latinate
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Common Celtic(all Continental Celtic dialects now extinct)
Q Celtic/Goidelic
Irish, Scottish, Manx
Son of = macHead = ceann
P Celtic/Brythonic
Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Cumbric (Cumbric extinct)
Son of= map, apHead = pen
Pre-modern European Migration:Celtic Migrations• Druidic place names
• Drunemeton (Galatia)• Nemetobriga (northern Spain)• Medionemeton (southern Scotland)• Nemed in Irish = sacred place
• Place names associated with Lugh, god of the sun and crafts• Lugdunum (Lyon, France)• Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden, Netherlands)• Luguvallium (Carlisle, England)
• Celtic terms associated with ruling• King = Gaulish rix, Irish, ri, Welsh rhi.
• Gaulish personal name Toutierix = tribal king• Irish ri tuaithe=tribal king• Welsh personal name Tudor