Brittonicism

English

Etymology

Brittonic +‎ -ism

Noun

Brittonicism (plural Brittonicisms)

1. (linguistics) A Brittonic feature of a language.
   • 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 109:

     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.

   • 2003, Hildegard L. C. Tristram, The Celtic Englishes III, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, →ISBN, page 43:

     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.