Aside from the original approach of Jackson (also supported by Koch), several linguists made their own opinion on the idea of
Pritenic. Linguist Alan G. James noted some phonological and lexical similarities between
Cumbric place-names in northern England and southern Scotland and Pictish toponyms to the north of
Forth, and argued that the term "Pritenic" was helpful to describe such distinctive features. He listed several elements from the reconstructed language, including
aber (compare Welsh
aber 'confluence'),
brïnn (Welsh
bryn, 'hill'),
cömber (Welsh
cymmer 'confluence'),
lanerc (compare Welsh
llannerch 'glade'),
peth (Brythonic *
peθ 'thing'). In Allan's view,
Cumbric was seen as a combination of West Brythonic to the south and
Pritenic to the north. Other scholars, like Paul Cavill and George Broderic, referred to
Pritenic as "northern P-Celtic" inside a
dialect continuum of Proto-P-Celtic, existing on the same level as
Proto-Brittonic. They also mentioned a distinctive feature of
Pritenic (and Pictish) – o-grade, which creates *
abbor instead of *
aber, or *
ochel instead of *
uchel, found in the
Scottish toponymy initially by Jackson. == Evidence ==