Proto-Celtic word for tree, reconstructed
A reconstructed Proto-Celtic form for tree, built by the comparative method from Gaelic, Welsh and Breton.
1000 to 500 BCEAtlantic Europe
Vault
Language vault
Endangered languages, place-names, songs and reconstructed speech.
4 published records. Locations are shown only as precisely as it is safe to show them.
Catalogue
4 records
Abernethy: Obar Neithich
The Gaelic name of the pinewood, meaning the mouth of the river Nethy.
1900 to 2020Nethy Bridge, Strathspey, Scotland
Cornish song, revived tradition
A Cornish-language song performed by a revival singer, embedded from the holding archive.
2015Cornwall, England
Gaelic pinewood words, Badenoch speaker
A native speaker names the trees, birds and soils of the pinewood in Gaelic. Recorded with consent.
2018Badenoch, Scottish Highlands
Methods note
- Comparative method (linguistic reconstruction) (T4): How an ancestral word is proposed from its living descendants, and what a synthesised pronunciation means.
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Sources
- Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba · CC BY 4.0
- Chronos Terra field recordings · Recorded for Chronos Terra with consent
- Chronos Terra Foundation · CC BY 4.0
- Holding archive · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0