celt

See also: Celt, CELT, célt, and ceļt

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): /sɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Noun

celt (plural celts)

1. A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
   • 1880, William Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period:

     The later division of the Bronze age is characterised by the appearance of swords, spears, palstaves, and socketed celts.

Anagrams

• -lect, lect, lect.

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zelt. Compare Silesian celt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlt
• Syllabification: celt

Noun

celt m inan

1. tent

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “celt”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “celt”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• “celt”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022