- The
Britons (*
Pritanī, Latin: Britanni), also
known as
Celtic Britons or
Ancient Britons, were an
indigenous Celtic people who
inhabited Great Britain...
- The name
Britain originates from the
Common Brittonic term *
Pritanī and is one of the
oldest known names for
Great Britain, an
island off the north-western...
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parts of
Leinster and Connacht.
Their name is the
Irish equivalent of *
Pritanī, the
reconstructed native name of the
Celtic Britons, and
Cruthin was sometimes...
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language was a
descendant of the Picts' language. Indeed, the
tribe of the
Pritani has
Qritani (and,
orthographically orthodox in
modern form but counterintuitively...
- 'river' (cf.
Welsh afon,
Cornish avon,
Breton aven) Britain,
cognate with
Pritani = (possibly) 'People of the Forms' (cf.
Welsh Prydain 'Britain', pryd 'appearance...
- word
itself comes from the
common Brythonic ethnonym reconstructed as *
Pritanī,
itself from Proto-Celtic *kʷritanoi (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European...
- Brittania,
ultimately an
adaptation of the
native word for the island, *
Pritanī. An
early written reference to the
British Isles may
derive from the works...
- Isle of Man of
Prettanike were
called the Πρεττανοί (Prettanoi), Priteni,
Pritani or Pretani. The
group included Ireland,
which was
referred to as Ierne...
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Brittanni or
Brittones in
Latin and as Βρίττωνες in Gr****. An
earlier form was
Pritani, or Πρετ(τ)αν(ν)οί in Gr**** (as
recorded by
Pytheas in the 4th century...
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Ireland 'the
Pretanic (or Brettanic) islands', i.e. the
islands of the
Pritani or Priteni" and that "From this one may
reasonably infer that the Priteni...
