Celtic cognates

This page contains words that are cognate in all or some of the six modern Celtic languages.

Click on the English versions that are links and you will be taken to the Celtiadur, where you can see what each word means, and how some of them are pronounced. There are also details of related words and expressions, and words in older versions of the Celtic languages, such as Middle Welsh and Old Irish. More Celtic Cognates

Words marked † are archaic/obsolete.


Tools

These words are cognate in all six Celtic languages.

Gaeilge
(Irish)
Gàidhlig
(Gaelic)
Gaelg
(Manx)
Cymraeg
(Welsh)
Kernewek
(Cornish)
Brezhoneg
(Breton)
English
arathar àrach† erroo aradr arader arar plough
ploughman
bac bac bac bach bagh bac'h hook
mattock
hindrance
cliabh cliabh clean cawell kowell kavell basket
creel
pannier
coire coire coirrey pair per† per cauldron
kettle
boiler
cuing cuing quing iau yew yev yoke
liach liogh lheegh llwy lo loa spoon
ladle
píce pìc peeik pig pig pig pickaxe
pike
peak
rámh ràmh raue rhaw reuv roev oar
paddle
shovel
spade
scuab sguab skeab ysgub
ysgubell
skub
skubell
skub
skubell
brush
broom
sheaf
slat slat slat llath lath lazh stick
rod
staff
snáthaid snàthad snaid nodwydd naswydh
najedh
nadoez needle
pin
tarathar tora
torachair
tarrar taradr tarder tarar augur
drill

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These words are cognate in some of the Celtic languages.

Gaeilge
(Irish)
Gàidhlig
(Gaelic)
Gaelg
(Manx)
Cymraeg
(Welsh)
Kernewek
(Cornish)
Brezhoneg
(Breton)
English
adhal adhal aall fork
trident
allwedd alhwedh alc'hwez key
altán ealtainn ellyn alsen
alten
aotenn razor
sharp knife
bascead basgaid basca(i)d
baskad
basgeg basket basket
pannier
biail biail† bwyell bool bouc'hal axe
hatchet
caib caibe kiebbey caib pickaxe
spade
dibble
callor
callawr
kalter kaoter cauldron
kettle
boiler
casúr casar casoor hammer
céachta ceuchd† keeaght plough
plough-beam
cis
ciséan
cis
cisean
ciosan
kishan basket
creel
cló clò clou clo klaou bolt
lock
nail
cuach cuach cawg cup
dish
bowl
cyllell kollell kontell knife
druil dril(e) drilley drill drill
eochair iuchair ogher agoriad key
fàl faayl
foll
pâl pal pal scythe
spade
shovel
forc forca fforc forgh forc'h fork
morthwyl morthol morzhol hammer
ord òrd oard gordd horzh hammer
pigell pigell pigell goad
hoe
mattock
rásúr ràsar rhesar, razor r(h)asel
rasal
razher razor
seam sèam sheaym hem rivet
peg
pin
sluasaid sluasaid sleayst shovel
spade
spúnóg spàin spein spoon
tál tàl taal adze
tua tuagh teigh axe
hatchet

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Celtiadur

Celtiadur

The Celtiadur blog is a collection of Celtic cognates, with definitions, pronunciation, etymologies - includes the modern Celtic languages, older versions of these languages, such as Middle Welsh, Middle Breton and Old Irish, and their extinct and reconstructed relatives and ancestors, including Gaulish, Proto-Brythonic and Proto-Celtic.

Celtic Pathways

Celtic Pathways

On the Celtic Pathways podcast I discuss connections between the Celtic languages, and look for words with Celtic roots in non-Celtic languages, such as English, French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese.

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