List of Spanish words of Celtic origin

From English: • "tunnel" From French: • "graduate", from French and this from late Latin "bachelor". • "battle". From from "military drill in fencing," from Latin , see '''''' below. • "billiard". • "brigade" • "brooch, clasp, clip". From Old French "a spit," from Vulgar Latin (*) "a nail, spike," from Latin "a nail, projecting (adj.), buck-toothed (adj.)" from Celtic (*) "a pin, badger." • "brandy" • "cream" from French • "dispute, quarrel". from Old French "discussion, controversy, contest" (Modern French , from , "to fight, wrestle, struggle," from + "to fight, strike," from Latin , see '''''' above. • from French • "ambassador" and this from gaulish "who serves around". • , from Middle French , diminutive of ; akin to Irish "spear", Welsh "dart", Breton • "tannery", from French , from "tanbark"; akin to Breton "red oak", Old Cornish , Old and Modern Irish "mass of metal from furnace; metal bar, ingot"; (ogham letter) "holly, elder". • "penguin" from fr. . • "barrel" from French and this from Celtic * "skin" • "ton" see * • "buffoon, jester" from French From Italian: • "brocade". From Italian , from "a twist thread, shoot, sprout," see '''''' below. • "broccoli". From Italian , plural of , "sprout of cabbage/turnip" diminutive of "shoot, sprout," from Vulgar Latin (*), see '''''' above. From Late or Vulgar Latin: • "birch tree" from late Latin "birch", diminutive of Gaulish "birch"; akin to Old Irish , Irish/Scottish , Manx , Welsh , Breton . The '' of is by the influence of Spanish "fir tree. • "white poplar" • "lark" (OSp ) from gaulish • "shad" • • "plot of land marked for planting" • "shards, smithereens" • "arpent" (OSp ) from Latin "old measure" • "cross-bar" from common Celtic } • "railing, balustrade" • "spleen" from Latin "red" • "henbane" from gaulish "henbane" • "leadwort" • "bicolor(ed) (animal); pronghorn bull" • "watercress" from common Celtic "watercress" • , "granitic crag, irregular pearl, round nodule" • "tar" from Latin * • "big lip" • "pruning hook" • /* "billy-goat, buck" • "dung" from * (PIE * "excrement") Proto-Celtic: "dirty" • "common pandora" from Celtic * "spotted, speckled" • OSp "bran; filth" • "scrubland" • "heather" • "British" • "cradle, lap" • "witch" • "billy goat" from a Celtic * • "cow pasture" • "standard, sheth (of plow)", "water tower" • "Cambrian" • "way" from Celtic * through lat. • "song" • "cart" • • "spider crab" • • "beehive" • "mistress, home-wrecker" • "belt" • "circle" • "maggot" • "hillock" • "trough" • "to addle" • • "large stone" • "gaillard" from French • "hook" • "claw, talon" • "heron" • "handful" • "Germanic" • / • "stubborn or tangled hair" • through the Latin from Celtic * • ~ "vain, vacuous, without substance" • "open field" • "lance" • "to launch" • "tin, tin can" • "slime, mud" • "league (unit)" • "dregs, lees" • • , • "flagstone" from hisp-Celtic * "flagstone" • "mine" through the Latin . However asturian 'vein' directly from Celtic *. • "moorland" • "piece" from Celtic * through the Latin . • "penguin" • "finch" • "pot" • "Portuguese oak" • "line" • "brill, seabass" • "shad" • "hound" • "tunic", * "cloak" through the Latin from Celtic * • "mountain pasture, commons" • "ploughed or sown field" • "rope" • "auger, drill" • "tanine" • "wooden peg" • "badger" • • "stubborn" • "mire, muddy place" • • "cudgel, club" • "rag" • "straw- or thatch-roofed hut" • "man" • "vassal" from Celtic * "servant" through the Latin • "path" from Celtic * through the Latin "way" • , "dwarf elder" ==Inherited Hispano-Celtic==

• to cart, to transport: from + (see below) + the verbal infinitive suffix -. • "white poplar" (also Asturian ); akin to Irish "elm", Welsh , Cornish , Breton "elm" • "lark" (OSp ), from Gaulish "crest lark", derivative of * "swan", akin to Irish and Welsh • , (also Catalan , ), from Gaulish "hands together"; akin to Old Irish • , (also Galician ) from *, from "around" + "to go" + -; akin to Old Irish "to visit, go to", Welsh "I went", Cornish "he was going" • "smithereens" (also Galician , Old Catalan ), from * + - • Old Spanish "arpent"; akin to Old Irish "end, extremity", Welsh "chief" and "against", Cornish "id." • "cross-bar", (also Galician ) from * "bar, beam"; akin to Irish e "ridgepole" • "railing, balustrade", (also Portuguese , Catalan ) from *, from * "part, portion"; Welsh , Cornish/Breton , Irish • "henbane", from (Pseudo-Aristotle, , 7.821); akin to Welsh "henbane", Old Irish "sun" • "of Belgium, a Belgian": from Latin , singular of Belgae, from Gaulish , possibly meaning "the threatening (ones), the swollen (ones)," the IE root * (cf. Dutch 'to worsen', originally 'to swell'), enlargement of * "to swell"; akin to Old Irish '(s)he swells'. • "bicolor; pronghorn", originally just "pronghorn", from * "white-tipped", from * "tip, peak" + "white"; akin to Irish/Breton "peak", Cornish/Welsh "id."; also Old Irish , Ir/Sc , Welsh , Breton • "watercress", (also Galician ) from *; akin to Welsh , Breton/Cornish , Old Irish , Irish , Scottish Gaelic • "granite crag, cliff", from "over" and "rock" • (dial.) (also Old Spanish , Galician ), from * "load"; akin to Irish/Scottish "load", "to rock" • "big lip, lip blubber" (also Galician "lip"), from OSp "snout", from * "animal's mouth", from * "to yell"; akin to Old Irish , Irish ‘yell, roar’, Scottish , Welsh ‘to low, sob’, Cornish ‘to bray’, Breton ‘to bleat’ • (Huesca) "pruning hook", from * (also French , Occitan ); akin to Welsh "billhook", Cornish "id.", Irish "sickle", Breton "boar-spear" • "scrubland; rocky terrain", from *, from "fortress"; akin to Middle Irish , genitive "mountain", Scottish "fortified hill", Welsh "hill", "id", Cornish , "hill", Breton "hill", "brooch, prickles" • "heather" (also Navarre , Galician , Asturian ), from OSp , from *, from , from HispCelt *; akin to Welsh/Cornish ( b lenition • ; akin to Middle Irish "snare", "rivet", Welsh "snare", "rivet" • , from * "seat"; akin to Old Welsh • "tilled or sown field" (also Old Galician , Galician , Portuguese ), from *, from * "separate, apart" + * "field"; akin to Old Irish "alone", Welsh "other", Cornish "self, one's own", and Irish , Welsh , Cornish/Breton . • (also Portuguese/Italian , Old French ), from Gaulish *; akin to Welsh/Cornish "chain", Breton "harness trace", Irish "rope", Scottish "straw rope" • , (also Galician ) from *; akin to Welsh "drill", Irish , Cornish , Breton • , from *; akin to Scottish , "nail, stud" • "badger" (also Portuguese , Catalan , , Old French , Italian ), from OSp , from Gaulish *; akin to Old Irish (person's name) "badger", Scottish "marten", Old Welsh (person's name) • "stubborn" (also Catalan 'stiff, rigid', Béarnais 'cruel, treacherous', Italian , 'miserly, crude'), from *; akin to Middle Irish , Welsh 'miserly, scarce' • "mire, muddy place" (also Catalan "pool in a river", Galician "dam"), from *; akin to Irish/Cornish "hole", Welsh , Breton • , from Galician "skin, bark", from Gaulish *, "skin, hide, rind"; akin to Old Irish "skin, surface", Irish "hide, skin", Welsh "skin", Cornish "surface", Breton "rind, surface". From the same source came Late Latin 'wine-cask', whence French 'tun' (wine-cask)', 'barrel'. • "club, cudgel" (also Portuguese/Galician "door bolt"), from *; akin to Old Irish "iron nail, tine", Irish "metal nail", Scottish "nail" • "jester, baffoon" (also Portuguese , Galician "sadness, pity", French "vagrant, beggar"); akin to Old Irish "miserable", Irish , Scottish , Welsh "wretched", Breton "beggar", Cornish "miser; wretched" • (also Portuguese/Catalan "wattle hut", dial. French "haybale, straw heap"), from (Lat fundus , in Tabula Veleiana, c. 2nd century); akin to Middle Irish "fort; woodhouse" • "elder" (also Asturian , Galician , Occitan , ), from older , , from *, alteration of Gaulish , odicus (Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis liber, 7.13), which was also loaned into German "dwarf elder, danewort", Old Saxon , Dutch . ==Loanwords==

• to lower, to knock down, to humble: from Vulgar Latin to demolish, knock down, overthrow: from + Latin , see ' below. The d is assimilated to the b' in . • abomasum: from Modern Latin (first used in English in 1706) from Latin + "intestine of an ox," possibly from Gaulish. • to button, fasten: from + "a button" (see '''''' below) + the verbal infinitive suffix . • a muddy place, bog: from "to dirty to soil," from + "mire, muddy place" (possibly from a Celtic word represented in Old Irish "hole, pit, grave") + the verbal infinitive suffix . • a bachelor: from Old French "bachelor, young man, young gentleman" (Modern French ), from Medieval Latin "an advanced student, farmer," probably from Celtic, possibly related to Irish "rural dweller, farmer." • battle, struggle: from Vulgar Latin (*) "combat," from Late Latin "military drill in fencing," from Latin , see '''''' below. • battery: from French (originally referred to a battery of kitchen utensils made with a hammer), from , from Latin , see '''''' below. • to hit, strike: from Latin , "to beat, strike," probably of Celtic origin. • an orchestra conductor's baton: from Italian , from , from Latin , see '''''' above. • a bohemian, of Bohemia, vagabond, eccentric, Gitano, Gypsy: from (from the belief that the Gitanos came from Bohemia), from Latin , literally "place of the Boi/Boii", from tribal name + from Germanic * "home" (see '''''' here). The etymology of Boii is disputed, either "cattle-owners" or "warriors, strikers". • broccoli • from Latin , from ; akin to Welsh "form", Irish • from Vulgar Latin (*) "a nail • a brocade: from Italian , from "a twist thread, shoot, sprout," see '''''' below. • brooch, clasp, clip, fastener: from Old French "a spit," from Vulgar Latin (*) "a nail, spike," from Latin "a nail, projecting (adj.), buck-toothed (adj.)" from Celtic (*) "a pin, badger." • broccoli: from Italian , plural of , "sprout of cabbage/turnip" diminutive of "shoot, sprout," from Vulgar Latin (*), see '''''' above. • to engage in combat, to fight: from + see '''''' above. • rabbit: Iberian or Celtiberian; cf Irish , Cornish , Manx , Gaelic , Welsh . • a debate, dispute, quarrel: from Old French "discussion, controversy, contest" (Modern French ), from , "to fight, wrestle, struggle," from + "to fight, strike," from Latin , see '''''' above. • , from Middle French , diminutive of ; akin to Irish "spear", Welsh "dart", Breton • "tannery", from French , from "tanbark"; akin to Breton "red oak", Old Cornish , Old and Modern Irish "mass of metal from furnace; metal bar, ingot; (ogham letter) "holly, alder". ==See also==