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.

Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland.

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 ".

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* 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.

Some authors reject both the French and Goidelic theories and instead suggest that the ultimate source both for the Norman French, Scots and Goidelic variants of this word are to be found in a common Norse root.

The word is Goidelic: gleann in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, glion in Manx.

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

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 ).

Due to the series of language changes in the area, it is not possible to say whether any Goidelic settlement took place before Gaelic was introduced in the High Middle Ages.

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 '.

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.

The ogham inscription in Goidelic shows that the Irish language was still in use at that time, and had not yet died out in South Wales.

Before the advance of Indo-European studies, philologists established that there was a relationship between the Goidelic and Brythonic languages, as well as a relationship between these languages and the extinct Celtic languages such as Gaulish, spoken in classical times.

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 >

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.

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.

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

* 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.

Others hold that the close similarity between the Goidelic and Brythonic branches, and their sharing of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age terminology with their continental relatives, point to a more recent introduction of Indo-European languages ( or close communication ), with Proto-Celtic itself unlikely to have existed before the end of the 2nd millennium BC at the earliest.

However, in spite of these recorded Manx forms, no satisfactory etymology has been proposed for Hop-tu-Naa within Goidelic.

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

They assert that a partition that lumps the Brythonic languages and Gaulish ( P-Celtic ) on one side and the Goidelic languages with Celtiberian ( Q-Celtic ) on the other may be a superficial one ( i. e. owing to a language contact phenomenon ), as the identical sound shift ( to ) could have occurred independently in the predecessors of Gaulish and Brythonic, or have spread through language contact between those two groups.

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.

It is a creature associated with Samhain, a Goidelic harvest festival, when the last of the crops are brought in.

The " Insular Celtic hypothesis " is a theory that the Brythonic and Goidelic languages evolved together in those islands, having a common ancestor more recent than any shared with the Continental Celtic languages such as Celtiberian, Gaulish, Galatian and Lepontic, among others, all of which are long extinct.

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.

The Brythonic and Goidelic languages are recognised as forming the Insular Celtic subgroup of the Celtic languages, " Celtic " being a linguistic term without an implication of a lasting cultural unity connecting Gaul with the British Isles throughout the Iron Age.

* Dependent and independent verb forms, in Goidelic languages, distinct verb forms used either with a preceding particle, in the case of dependent forms, or

The claim has also been made that Indo-European languages may have been introduced to the British Isles as early as the early Neolithic ( or even earlier ), with Goidelic and Brythonic languages developing indigenously.

In Goidelic the name represents priest, or chieftain with added emphasis on wisdom and loyalty.

The name includes the Brittonic and Gaulish root epos, meaning horse ( Compare with Goidelic primitive Irish ech ).