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Brittonicism
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English
Etymology
From en Brittonic ism.
Noun
en linguistics A Brittonic feature of a language.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=48fYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Brittonicisms%22&pg=PA109 109 History and Heroic Tale: A Symposium T. Nyberg; et al. Odense University Press Odense UP Some Functions of Origin Stories in Early Medieval Wales P. Sims-Williams 9788774925347 1985 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.
en https://books.google.com/books?id=hi0dAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Brittonicisms%22&pg=PA43 43 The Celtic Englishes III Hildegard L. C. Tristram w:Heidelberg de Universitätsverlag Winter Universitätsverlag C. Winter 9783825312411 2003 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.
en hybridisms suffixed with -ism