Words that come from Gaulish birrus

235 words across 41 languages descend from Gaulish birrus — including cumbersome, encumbrance, Aber, encumber, beret, incumbrance, Aberystwyth, cumbered.

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English (47)

Irish (39)

Old Irish (25)

Welsh (18)

German (10)

Manx (9)

Catalan (9)

Scottish Gaelic (9)

French (7)

Proto-Celtic (5)

Spanish (5)

Old French (5)

Medieval Latin (4)

Middle Irish (3)

Polish (3)

Middle English (3)

Turkish (2)

Russian (2)

Middle French (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Proto-Brythonic (2)

Middle High German (2)

Korean (2)

Mon (2)

Romanian (2)

Breton (1)

Italian (1)

Ido (1)

Greek (1)

Celtic (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Latin (1)

Gaulish (1)

Occitan (1)

Late Latin (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Albanian (1)

Tagalog (1)

Esperanto (1)

Romagnol (1)

Georgian (1)