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kelt

  [kelt]
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–noun
a salmon that has spawned.
Origin:
1300–50; ME (north) < ?
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Kelt

  [kelt]
–noun
Celt.
Related forms:
Keltic, noun, adjective
Kelt⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb

Celt

  [kelt, selt]
–noun
a member of an Indo-European people now represented chiefly by the Irish, Gaels, Welsh, and Bretons.
Also, Kelt.

Origin:
1695–1705; < L Celtae (pl.); in Gk Keltoí (pl.)
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Celt   (kělt, sělt)   
n.  

  1. One of an Indo-European people originally of central Europe and spreading to western Europe, the British Isles, and southeast to Galatia during pre-Roman times, especially a Briton or Gaul.

  2. A native speaker of a modern Celtic language or a descendant of such a speaker, especially a modern Gael, Welsh person, Cornish person, or Breton.


[French Celte, sing. of Celtes, Celts, from Latin Celtae, from Greek Keltoi.]
Kelt   (kělt)   
n.  Variant of Celt.
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Celt 
1607, from L. Celta, singular of Celtæ, from Gk. Keltoi, Herodotus' word for the Gauls (who were also called Galatai). Used by the Romans of continental Gauls but apparently not of the British Celtic tribes. Celtic twilight is from Yeats's name for his collection of adapted Irish folk tales (1893).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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