kelt
noun
a salmon that has spawned.
Kelticism
-
a word derived from
Kelt.
Example Sentences
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Many writers make the Parisian a Roman on the strength of his language; whilst others make him a Kelt on the strength of certain moral characteristics, combined with the previous Kelticism of the original Gauls.
From Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
A vast amount of Kelticism, not found in our tongue, very probably exists in our pedigrees.
From Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
What such Kelticism or Germanism may have to do with these same characteristics is neither so well ascertained, nor yet so easy to discover.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
