goidelic in English

adjective

1

of, relating to, or denoting the northern group of Celtic languages, including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx.

Irish is a Celtic (Indo-European) language, part of the Goidelic branch of insular Celtic (as are Scottish Gaelic and Manx).

noun

1

the Goidelic languages collectively.

Philologists have referred to them as P-Celtic in contrast to Goidelic as Q-Celtic, on the basis of a sound shift of q to p which split an earlier tongue known as Common Celtic.

Use "goidelic" in a sentence

1. Modern Celtic is divided into the Brythonic (southern) and Goidelic (northern) groups

2. Modern Celtic is divided into the Brythonic (southern) and Goidelic (northern) groups

3. Brythonic languages, one of two groups of the modern Celtic languages, the other being Goidelic

4. Today, Celtic languages have two major groups: Brythonic and Goidelic, corresponding roughly to the languages spoken in Britain and the languages spoken in Ireland

5. Definition of Celtic (Entry 2 of 2) : a group of Indo-European languages usually subdivided into Brythonic and Goidelic and now largely confined to Brittany, Wales, Ireland, and the Scottish Highlands — see …

6. The names "Brittonic" and "Brythonic" are scholarly conventions referring to the Celtic languages of Britain and to the ancestral language they originated from, designated Common Brittonic, in contrast to the Goidelic languages originating in Ireland.

7. The Celtic languages are a language family inside of Indo-European languages.There are six Celtic languages still spoken in the world today, spoken in north-west Europe.They are divided into two groups, Goidelic (or Gaelic) and the Brythonic (or British)

8. Stitisse mulieribus, et earum Appetisse ac peregisse concubitum; et quosdam daemones, quos Dusios Galli nuncupant, hanc assidue im-munditiam et tentare et efficere, plures talesque asseverant, ut hoc negare impudentiae videatur." That a similar belief prevailed among the Irish is amply attested in early Goidelic literature.7