Places outside of Welsh nation with Welsh names

Brythonic names

The Brythonic languages (or Brittonic languages) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language. The name Brythonic is derived from the Welsh word Brython, meaning an indigenous Briton as opposed to an Anglo-Saxon or Gael

Scotland

Glasgow - derive name Glasgow from the older Brythonic glas cau or a Middle Gaelic cognate, which would have meant green hollow.

The biggest city in Scotland

ABERDOUR: 'mouth of the River Dour'; aber (Brittonic) mouth, confluence; dobhar (Gaelic) water, stream.

Aberfeldy The confluence of Palladius or Paldoc" Aber (Brythonic-Pictish - confluence or river mouth)

burgh in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, on the River Tay. Notable buildings in the town include The Water Mill, which up until 2003 was kept running as a working watermill producing and selling oatmeal.

Clackmannanshire "The stone of Manau"

one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area, bordering Perth and Kinross, Stirling and Fife.

Aberlour

Lothian Place of Leudonus

Lanarkshire Shire of Lanark: Place in the glade
Midlothian Place of Leudonus
Moray : Sea settlement
Nairnshire Brythonic Shire of Nairn: Penetrating (river)

Renfrewshire Rinn Friù - point of the current

Edinburgh The origin of the city's name is understood to come from the Brythonic Din Eidyn (Fort of Eidyn)

England

Avon : Avon is a Brythonic word meaning river

Berkshire : Hilly place

Cornwall : Cornovii is a Brythonic word meaning people of the peninsula

Devon : Territory of the Dumnonii (The Celtic tribal name Dumnonii is of unknown origin)

Isle of Wight Island at the place of division. More likely to be Old British "eight-sided", cf Modern Welsh wyth - eight.

Lincolnshire Shire of Lincoln: Roman colony by the pool

Manchester derived on a Brythonic name for Manchester meaning breast-like hill

Yorkshire Shire of York: Originally Brythonic meaning yew tree, which was misunderstood by the English

A list of places taken into Scottish imperial hold, and also Welsh http://www.lonympics.co.uk/scottishempire.htm

A site on the history of serfdom in Scotland http://www.lonympics.co.uk/scottishserfdom.htm

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