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Peguin

The etymology of the word penguin is still debated. The English word is not apparently
of French,[2] Breton[4] or Spanish[5] origin (the latter two are attributed to the French
word pingouin "auk"), but first appears in English or Dutch.[2]
Some dictionaries suggest a derivation from Welsh pen, "head" and gwyn, "white",[6] including
the Oxford English Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary,[7] the Century
Dictionary[7] and Merriam-Webster,[8] on the basis that the name was originally applied to
the great auk, either because it was found on White Head Island (Welsh Pen Gwyn) in
Newfoundland, or because it had white circles around its eyes (though the head was black).

Cist
It is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples
can be found across Europe and in the Middle East.[3][4][5][6] A cist may have been associated
with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or long barrow. Several cists are sometimes
found close together within the same cairn or barrow. Often ornaments have been found within
an excavated cist, indicating the wealth or prominence of the interred individual.

Brock
From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (badger), related to Danish brok (badger);
both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc.
In modern English brock means badger or brocket.
Brat
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the term "brat" derives from an Old
English slang term meaning "beggar's child". Originally a dialectal word, from

northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged
garment"; probably the same word as Old English bratt (cloak), which is from
a Celtic source (compare Old Irish bratt (cloak, cloth)).
Nowadays, it is a child; especially, one who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled,
or selfish.

Beak-Peak

Beak comes from Celtic language, exactly, bekkos could be a rigid structure projecting from
the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food.

Car, cart.

Those both Welsh words; originally from Old Celtic karrom, karros. They came to
English via Latin carrum, carrus, and hence the words carry, carrier and carriage.
Awdl
In early Welsh literature, an awdl was any long poem on a single end-rhyme (the word is the
same as odl, 'rhyme'). Such early awdlau are associated with the Cynfeirdd such
as Aneirin and Taliesin, and the poetry is found in manuscripts such as the Book of Taliesin,
the Black Book of Carmarthen, the Hendregadredd Manuscript or The Red Book of Hergest.

Druid
A druid (Welsh: derwydd; Old Irish: dru) was a member of the high-ranking professional class
in ancient Celtic cultures. While perhaps best remembered as religious leaders, they were also
legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors.

Boycott

An Irish word which means abstaining from using/ buying/dealing with a person,
organization, or country as an expression of protest.

Word originated in County Mayo, Ireland where an English absentee landlord called
Captain Boycott expected his tenants to harvest his crops as part of their rent. The tenants
refused to deal with him and the word boycott was added to the English language. The
landlord and his family were totally ignnored and their crops rotted without harvesting.

Bard
In medieval Gaelic and British culture, a bard was a professional story teller, verse-maker and
music composer, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble), to commemorate one or
more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

Originally a specific, lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as fili in Ireland
and Highland Scotland, with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period the term
"bard" acquired generic meanings of an author or minstrel, especially a famous one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard
Bara brith
Bara brith derived its name from the Welsh language, "bara" meaning bread and "brith"
translating as speckled. It is claimed to have been invented by a Welsh chef who added dried
fruit and spices to a bread dough, creating the first version of the traditional Welsh tea loaf.[1] It
has subsequently been used as a coloqiualism - to "over spice the bara brith" means to do
something to excess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_brith

Cairn
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish
Gaelic: crn [karn] Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from
prehistoric times to the present.
In modern times, cairns are often erected as landmarks, a use they have had since ancient
times. However, since prehistory, they have also been built and used as burial monuments; for
defense and hunting; for ceremonial purposes, sometimes relating to astronomy; to locate
buried items, such as caches of food or objects; and to mark trails, among other purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn

Wisky
The word whiskey (or whisky) is an anglicisation of the Classical Gaelic word uisce (or uisge)
meaning "water" (now written as uisce in Irish Gaelic, and uisge in Scottish Gaelic). Distilled
alcohol was known in Latin as aqua vitae ("water of life"). This was translated to Classical
Gaelic as uisce beatha ("water of life"), which became uisce beatha in Irish and uisge
beatha [k bh] in Scottish Gaelic. Early forms of the word in English
included uskebeaghe (1581), usquebaugh (1610), usquebath (1621), and usquebae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky

Cawl
The word cawl in Welsh is first recorded in the 14th century, and is thought to come from
the Latin caulis, meaning the stalk of a plant, a cabbage stalk or a cabbage. An alternative
suggestion is that it is from Latin calidus, meaning warm, as this is the source of
Spanish caldo, with the senses of broth or gravy.
Historically, ingredients tended to vary, but the most common recipes included salted bacon or
beef with potatoes, swedes, carrots and other seasonal vegetables. Modern variations of the
meal tend to use lamb and leek. Cawl is recognised as a national dish of Wales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cawl
Cliff
Cliff comes from the Old English word clif of essentially the same meaning, cognate with
Dutch, Low German, and Old Norse klif 'cliff'.[1] These may in turn all be from
a Romance loanword into Primitive Germanic that has its origins in the Latin forms clivus /
clevus ("slope" or "hillside").[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff

Coracle
The coracle is a small, roundish shaped,[1] lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used
in Walesbut also in parts of Western and South West England, Ireland (particularly the River
Boyne),[2]and Scotland (particularly the River Spey); the word is also used of similar boats
found in India, Vietnam, Iraq and Tibet.[3] The word "coracle" comes from the Welsh cwrwgl,
cognate with Irishand Scottish Gaelic currach, and is recorded in English as early as the
sixteenth century. Other historical English spellings
include corougle, corracle, curricle and coricle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cist

Hiraeth
is a Welsh word for which there is no direct English translation. The online Welsh-English
dictionary of the University of Wales, Lampeter likens it to homesickness tinged with grief or
sadness over the lost or departed.[2] It is a mix of longing, yearning, nostalgia, wistfulness, or an
earnest desire for the Wales of the past

Balderdash

It is possibly from baldorddu, which was a sweet food mixture made from flour, milk,
gelatin and eggs - now known as flummery.

Bannock

This is a thick flat cake, bread baked on the hearth or under ashes, Old English bannuc,
from Gaelic bannach "a cake," which is perhaps a loan-word from Latin panicium,
from panis "bread," from PIE root *pa- "to feed."

Cirque
A cirque (French, from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed
by glacialerosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish
Gaelic coire meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwm (Welsh for "valley", pronounced
/km/ coom). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.

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