Q-Celtic

English

Etymology

Due to these languages retaining the phoneme /*kĘ·/, as opposed to P-Celtic in which it changed to /*p/.

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Proper noun

Q-Celtic

  1. The Goidelic language group.
  2. More generally, any Celtic language (such as Celtiberian) where Proto-Celtic *kw became [k] or remained as [kw]
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