The toponym is derived from the Celtic word bre for hill and the Old English word dun for hill.

The scholar T. Gwynn Jones suggested that a possible origin of the term " Berwyn " was " Bryn ( iau ) Gwyn ( ap Nudd )", where the Middle Welsh word " bre " ( hill ) had mutated to Ber + Gwyn, Gwyn ap Nudd being the mythological King of the Tylwyth teg ( Fair Folk, or fairies ).

" Pen " is a Welsh word meaning head or top, and " bre " is an old Celtic word for a promontory.

The first element of that name is the name of the old municipality Jostedal, the last element is the finite form of the word bre which means " glacier ".

The first element is the British word ' briga ', which appears in modern Welsh as ' bre '.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Complicity is an embarrassing word.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

The word clock is derived ultimately ( via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin ) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning " bell ".

The word clock ( from the Celtic words clocca and clogan, both meaning " bell "), which gradually supersedes " horologe ", suggests that it was the sound of bells which also characterized the prototype mechanical clocks that appeared during the 13th century in Europe.

However, this word is regularly derived from Celtic * Kombrogi, meaning “ compatriots ”.

Maier ( 2010 ) states that the etymology of Cernunnos is unknown, as the Celtic word for " horn " has an a ( as in Carnonos ).

Hesychius of Alexandria glosses the Galatian word karnon ( κάρνον ) as " Gallic trumpet ", that is, the Celtic military horn listed as the carnyx ( κάρνυξ ) by Eustathius of Thessalonica, who notes the instrument's animal-shaped bell.

Isca is derived from a Brythonic Celtic word for flowing water, which was given to the River Exe.

Some theories assume the name “ Amper ” river may derive from the Celtic word for “ water ”.

This is most obvious where tourist agencies brand some regions with the word " Celtic ".

Most historians believe that the older name for Ghent, ' Ganda ', is derived from the Celtic word ' ganda ' which means confluence.

The actual Celtic tribal nations which settled are not known as the particular group of Gauls were already highly Hellenized and used the Greek word of Gaul to describe themselves.

Early modern scholars derived the name from Lucis, an ancient people mentioned in Avienus ' Ora Maritima and Tan, from Celtic Tan ( Stan ), or Tain, meaning a region or implying a country of waters, a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region.

There have also been attempts by modern writers to link the Morrígan with the Welsh literary figure Morgan le Fay from Arthurian romance, in whose name ' mor ' may derive from a Welsh word for ' sea ', but the names are derived from different cultures and branches of the Celtic linguistic tree.

It is believed that the name of the Parisii tribe comes from the Celtic Gallic word parisio meaning " the working people " or " the craftsmen.

The word “ pear ”, or its equivalent, occurs in all the Celtic languages, while in Slavic and other dialects, differing appellations, still referring to the same thing, are found — a diversity and multiplicity of nomenclature which led Alphonse de Candolle to infer a very ancient cultivation of the tree from the shores of the Caspian to those of the Atlantic.

It is probable that the Germanic word was not inherited from pre-Proto-Germanic, but rather loaned from Celtic ( i. e. Gaulish rīx ) at an early time.

The word has many cognates outside of Germanic and Celtic, notably Latin rex and Sanskrit raja " king ".

In the Celtic languages, the word for the English nationality is derived from the word Saxon.

We would therefore be dealing with an Insular Celtic word for ' assembly ', * samani or * samoni, and a word for ' summer ', saminos ( derived from * samo -: ' summer ') alongside samrad, * samo-roto -.

The word tor ( Cornish tor, Old Welsh twrr, Modern Welsh tŵr, Scots Gaelic tòrr ), meaning hill, is notable for being one of the very few Celtic loanwords to be borrowed into vernacular English before the modern era – such borrowings are mainly words of a geographic or topographical nature.