Latin words from Proto-Celtic
5 Latin words with Proto-Celtic in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
bulga
It is borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“bag”), through Gaulish. The OLD and the TLL call it Gaulish and compare Old Irish bolg (“leather bag, bellows”). Festus says that the Gauls give this name…
carrus
It is borrowed from Gaulish *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, the zero grade of the root Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) that also produced the…
gladius
It is probably borrowed from Proto-Celtic *kladio- (“sword”), or a borrowing of the same word from a third language: de Vaan points to the close match with the Celtic words for “sword”, the…
leuga
Roman writers say it is Gaulish, and Wiktionary takes it as borrowed from Proto-Celtic *lougā. The Celtic origin is uncertain, since the ⟨eu⟩ is secondary and there are no clear Insular Celtic…
raeda
It is borrowed from Proto-Celtic *reido-: Quintilian names it with petorritum among the Gallic words that won a place in Latin. Wiktionary compares the second element of Proto-Celtic *uɸoreidos…