different between celt vs gael

English

Etymology

From Latin celtis (“chisel”), very probably a ghost word originating from a copyist's error in the Vulgate Bible, but taken as genuine and subsequently used in Medieval Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?lt/

Noun

celt (plural celts)

1. A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.

Anagrams

• -lect, lect, lect.

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *kelti, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to raise”). Cognates include Lithuanian kélti, Proto-Slavic *?elo (Russian ???? (?elo, “forehead”)), Latin excell? (“to elevate, to raise”) (< *keld-), celsus (“high, outstanding”) (< *keld-tos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ts??lt]

Verb

celt (tr., 1st conj., pres. ce?u, cel, ce?, past c?lu)

1. to lift, to raise (to move something upward)

2. (with gald? “at the table” or priekš? “ahead, at the front”) to offer, to serve (food, drinks) (lit. to lift to the table, to lift forward)

3. (with priekš? “ahead, at the front”) to show, to reveal (lit. to lift forward)

4. (with augš? “up(ward)”) to mention, to bring up (something previously known)

5. to take (something) across (a body of water), from one shore to the other

6. (of skills, knowledge) to build up, to raise, to improve, to develop

7. (of people) to improve someone's reputation, standing, to dignify

8. (colloquial) to raise, to employ, to put to work (in a position of responsibility)

9. to make (someone) rise, to awaken, to wake up (also figuratively)

10. to build, to construct (a house, a building, etc.)

11. (figuratively) to build, to make

12. (colloquial) to raise, to make, to create, to generate

13. (of claims, complaints, objections, protest) to raise, to allege

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (of "to build"): b?v?t

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• celties
• celtne
• celtnieks, celtniece, celtniec?ba
• celtnis
• celtuve

Related terms

• cil?t
• cildens, cildin?t, izcils

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Celte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??elt/

Noun

celt m (plural cel?i, feminine equivalent celt?)

1. Celt (member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe)

Declension

Synonyms

• gal

Adjective

celt m or n (feminine singular celt?, masculine plural cel?i, feminine and neuter plural celte)

1. Celtic

Declension

Synonyms

• celtic

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zelt.

Noun

celt m

1. tent

Swedish

Noun

celt c

1. Obsolete spelling of kelt

Declension

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German zelt.

Pronunciation

Noun

celt n (plural celta)

1. tent

Dutch Low Saxon

Alternative forms

• gel
• geel

Etymology

From Middle Low German g?l, from Old Saxon gelo, gelu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu. More at English yellow.

Adjective

gael

1. yellow

Noun

gael

1. yellow

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??e?l]
• Hyphenation: gael
• Homophone: gél
• Rhymes: -e?l

Adjective

gael (not comparable)

1. Gaelic (of or relating to the Gaels, the Celtic peoples of Scotland, Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages)

Declension

Noun

gael (countable and uncountable, plural gaelek)

1. Gael (a member of an ethnic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic)
2. Gaelic (Goidelic; any Goidelic language or Scottish Gaelic in particular)

Declension

References

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /?a???l/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?a?l/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /?ai?l/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /?a?l/

Verb

gael

1. Soft mutation of cael.

Mutation