Crossword clues for celtic
celtic
- Boston cager
- Irish musical ensemble __ Woman
- Boston basketballer
- Beantown basketball player
- Welsh's language family
- Russell or Bird e.g
- Onetime Boston Garden pro
- Member of Boston's NBA team
- Like the festival of Beltane
- Like Clannad's music
- Language of Wales
- Glasgow football club
- Cousy or Bird
- Boston Garden player
- Boston ballplayer
- Bird, until1992
- Bird, from 1979 to 1992
- Basketball player on a Boston team
- A Boston cager
- 2008 NBA champ
- Larry Bird was one
- FleetCenter player
- Bird, once
- Like the fire goddess Brigit
- ___ Sea between Ireland and England
- Larry Bird, during his playing days
- Boston N.B.A.'er
- TD Garden player
- Boston athlete
- A branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era
- Bird, for one
- Eg Welsh commander-in-chief welcoming English officer
- Language group containing 14 & 15 across
- Ancient Irish language
- Highlands language
- Bird, notably
- Welsh, e.g
- Larry Bird, notably
- Boston pro
- Boston player
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celtic \Celt"ic\ (s[e^]lt"[i^]k; k[e^]lt"[i^]k), a. [L. Celticus, Gr. Keltiko`s. See Celt.] Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also Keltic.]
Celtic \Celt"ic\, n. The language of the Celts.
Note: The remains of the old Celtic language are found in the Gaelic, the Erse or Irish; the Manx, and the Welsh and its cognate dialects Cornish and Bas Breton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Keltic, 1650s, of archaeology or history, from French Celtique or Latin Celticus "pertaining to the Celts" (see Celt). In reference to languages, from 1707; of other qualities, 19c. The Boston basketball team was founded 1946. Celtic twilight is from Yeats's name for his collection of adapted Irish folk tales (1893).
Wiktionary
a. Of the Celts; Of the style of the Celts n. 1 A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over western and central Europe in the pre-Christian era. 2 Any one of several sports teams. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic for a list.
Wikipedia
The words Celt and Celtic (also Keltic) may refer to:
Celtic has been the name of a number of ships:
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, built as a sailing barge in 1903 and converted to a motorship in 1941
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, a White Star Line liner
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, a White Star Line liner
- USS Celtic (AF-2), a U.S. Navy supply ship
Usage examples of "celtic".
Those Celtic tribes occupying modern Brittany were much smaller and darker than other Celts, as were many Aquitanian tribes.
They displayed Celtic brooches, pins, shears, and pottery items, as well as silver and gold vessels from Rome.
And frowns and fears from thee, Would not more swiftly flee Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds.
Rome among the Celtic and Belgic peoples of Gallia Comata, and it was for that reason that he entered their lands, not to make war.
Romans called a man of Celtic or Belgic race, no matter which part of the world he inhabited.
The torc was the mark of a Gaul, either Celtic or Belgic, though some Germans wore it also.
The office was more popular among the Celtic than the Belgic tribes, though the Treveri, very Belgic, elected vergobrets.
Celtic than the Belgic tribes, though the Treveri, very Belgic, elected vergobrets.
In its ground germs it was, it seems to us, unquestionably imported into Celtic thought and Cymrian song from that prolific and immemorial Hindu mind which bore Brahmanism and Buddhism as its fruit.
Real knowledge begins with two Celtic invasions, that of the Goidels in the later part of the Bronze Age, and that of the Brythons and Belgae in the Iron Age.
Celtic language, but is apparently of Egyptian or Canaanitish etymology.
Less exposed to Hellenic and Roman culture than the Celtiberians, the Lusitani were probably somewhat less Celtic than Iberian in racial content, though the two strains were mixed in them.
Celtic tonsure marked him as the Columban brother of whom Abbot Henry had spoken.
In manner and appearance, the Columban brother might almost have been the living embodiment of those early times, his white habit and Celtic tonsure linking him with his inheritance of Druid spirituality, which had seen the coming of the teachings of Christ as fulfillment and extension of a Trinitarian concept long honored in their traditions.
I have learned from our Columban brethren, whose knowledge spans the shift from older to newer expressions of faith in these Celtic lands, the particular magic touching on the Stone derives from sources beyond human memory.