Meanings
plural Brittonicisms
- human sciencesA Brittonic feature of a language.
There are number of obvious Brittonicisms in the Latin, and this perhaps has something to do with the fact that the source cited is a layman -- a cyfarwydd perhaps, doing a job for the Church without demanding his customary payment.
1985, P. Sims-Williams, “Some Functions of Origin Stories in Early Medieval Wales”, in T. Nyberg et al., editors, History and Heroic Tale: A Symposium, Odense UP, →ISBN, page 1091 more example
That in learning the Old English language these Britons engaged in a fair amount of simplification or modeling, with the result that simplifications or Brittonicisms, which often amount to the same thing, were introduced into and became predominant in the lower-class speech of Brittonic areas, which included most of the country.
2003, Hildegard L. C. Tristram, The Celtic Englishes III, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 43
Origin
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