In Goidelic languages the word was borrowed before these languages had re-developed the / p / sound and as a result the initial / p / was replaced with / k /.

These terms are normally used with the definite article in Goidelic languages, causing lenition in all cases: An Cháisc, A ' Chàisg and Y Chaisht.

The Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages (,, ) are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages.

There are three modern Goidelic languages: Irish ( Gaeilge ), Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) and Manx ( Gaelg ).

The Goidelic languages are part of the Q-Celtic branch of the Celtic languages.

Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic ( as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages ), the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language, only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore " Scottish " can refer to things not at all Gaelic.

The family tree of the Goidelic languages is as follows:

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For this reason, it is now widely, but not universally, supposed that the Gaelic language had long been present in the area of Dál Riata, perhaps since the Insular Celtic languages had divided into Goidelic and Brythonic branches.

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The word " whiskey " is an Anglicisation of " uisce beatha / uisge beatha " a phrase from the Goidelic branch of languages ( Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx ) meaning " water of life ".

* Dependent and independent verb forms in Goidelic languages

* Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Celtic languages ; they include:

Palatalization has played a major role in the history of English in addition to the Uralic, Romance, Slavic, Goidelic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Twi, Micronesian languages and Indic languages, among many others throughout the world.

In fact, he proposed that Túathal's story, pushed back to the 1st or 2nd century BC, represented the invasion of the Goidels, who established themselves over the earlier populations and introduced the Q-Celtic language that would become Irish, and that their genealogists incorporated all Irish dynasties, Goidelic or otherwise, and their ancestor deities into a pedigree stretching back over a thousand years to the fictitious Míl Espáine.

These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.

In the west were the Gaelic ( Goidelic )- speaking people of Dál Riata with their royal fortress at Dunadd in Argyll, with close links with the island of Ireland, from which they brought with them the name Scots.

The three main theories derive it either from a French, Norse or a Goidelic root.

It is generally accepted that this is derived from * Qritani, which is the Goidelic / Q-Celtic version of the Britonnic / P-Celtic * Pritani.

A third battle was fought against a subsequent wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula ( present day Galicia and Northern Portugal ), descendants of Míl Espáine ( who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts ).

The earliest recorded name for the town was ' Aberbrothock ', a reference to the Brothock Burn which runs through the town, the prefix ' Aber ' coming either from the Gaelic ' Obair ', or the earlier term ' Aber ' which could be either Goidelic or Brythonic for ' river mouth '.

" The word whisky is derived from uisge beatha, the Goidelic equivalent of this phrase.

It may be the oldest extant Irish manuscript and may contain the earliest examples of a written Goidelic language apart from Ogham inscriptions.

Alternatively, the name Gwynedd may derive from Brythonic Ueneda, which may be akin to Goidelic ( ancestor of Irish ) Fenia ( which gives fiana, " war-band " in Old Irish-e. g.

* Bith ( Celtic mythology ), a character from Goidelic Celtic mythology

Outside Goidelic circles, the derivation is normally seen to be from Latin cantāre " to sing " via Norman French canter.

* an alternative name for any Goidelic language, especially Irish, from Erische.

It is an anglicized ( Scots ) form of either the Pictish name Ciniod or the Goidelic name Cináed, often thought to mean " fire-head " or " born of fire " ( see Áed ), but ultimately derives from a shared prototype with Kennedy ; Cunedagius, originally Cornish ( then indistinct from other Brythonic languages )-- after which was carried north to Valentia and borne by Cunedda ( Latin Cunetacius ), founder of Gwynedd.

It is uncertain whether the name comes from a Brythonic language, related to Welsh, a Goidelic one, such as Scottish Gaelic, or a mixture of the two.

The first part, cairn-means cairn, either from Brythonic ( e. g. Welsh carn ) or Goidelic ( e. g. Gaelic càrn or càirn ).

It could also derive from the Goidelic element " coille " " forest ", i. e. " people of the forest ".

In the west were the Gaelic ( Goidelic )- speaking people of Dál Riata with close links with the island of Ireland, from which they brought with them the name Scots.

One Telerin change was from Common Eldarin /* kw / to / p /; this parallels a real-life change in Brythonic Celtic languages, including Welsh, which has similarities to and may have been an inspiration for Sindarin ( see Q-Celtic ( Goidelic ) and P-Celtic ( Brythonic ).</ div >

In the late 17th century the work of scholars such as Edward Lhuyd brought academic attention to the historic links between Gaulish and the Brythonic — and Goidelic — speaking peoples, from which point the term was applied not just to continental Celts but those in Britain and Ireland.

Middle Irish is the name given by historical philologists to the Goidelic language spoken in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man from the 10th to 12th centuries ; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English.

* Irish language, a Goidelic language spoken in Ireland and by communities worldwide

The Irish, known as Scotti, who migrated to Scotland and gave the region of north Britain its name, never wore kilts prior to their arrival in northern Britain, nor did their kinsmen, the Brythonic speaking tribes of Britain, nor their Goidelic speaking kinsmen in Ireland.

Next, the Tuatha Dé Danann, who are usually supposed to have been the gods of the Goidelic Irish, defeated the Fir Bolg in the first Battle of Magh Tuiredh and took possession of Ireland.

The descendants of Míl Espáine, they were the final inhabitants of Ireland, and were believed to represent the Goidelic ( or Gaelic ) Celts.

* Ptolemy's description of Ireland shows no trace of either the Goidelic or Laginian occupations of the country, both of which probably took place some centuries before Ptolemy's time.

It was rapidly evident in all areas of the Celtic nations and regions surrounding England ( both Goidelic ( Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man ) and Brythonic ( Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany ), saw the adoption and adaptation of the electric folk model.

The fourth and final Celtic invasion of Ireland was the Goidelic or Gaelic invasion.