Old Welsh
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Pean resembles Old Welsh penn, “head,” Old Irish cenn, and the second element may possibly be connected with Gaelic f�l, Welsh gwawl, “rampart.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
The reservoir of the Old Welsh Harp was close at hand—a place famous for its water-birds and wild fowl.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel
In Old Breton as in Old Welsh neither the initial nor the medial mutations are expressed in writing, whilst in Middle Breton only the latter are regularly denoted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
In Old Welsh and Old Breton, on the other hand, the final syllable, i.e. the primitive penult, received the stress, but in both languages the stress was shifted in the middle period to the penultimate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Old Welsh is in splendid form, doing the part to perfection.
From The Lunatic at Large by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)
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