Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic
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Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain
Mell Fell is found in the earlier form Melfel (1279) and is probably derived from the Brittonic (Cumbric) word mel (c.f. Welsh moel), a bare hill, with Fell as a later addition.
It was this claim to this ancient Brittonic lineage by a British monarch that led to a widepread feeling of the fulfilment of the myth of the Mab Darogan, a messianic figure of Welsh legend destined to reclaim Britain for the Celtic inhabitants.
Common Brittonic was used with Latin following the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, at least in major settlements.
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Common Brittonic (also called Common Brythonic, British, Old Brythonic, or Old Brittonic) was an ancient P-Celtic language spoken in Britain.
In particular, these texts contain a number of archaisms – features that appear to have once been common in all Brittonic varieties, but which later vanished from Welsh and the Southwestern dialects.
According to A. M. Armstrong, et al., the first element, tal, means "brow" or "end" in Brittonic and modern Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.