Re: Town, Zaun, and Celtic Dun-

At 12:06:40 PM on Thursday, August 20, 2009, neckfil wrote:

> There is a town in Scotland Dumbarton. It was known toward
> its early history as dun breatainn,

I believe that it still is <Dùn Breatann> in Sc.Gael. (Not,
however, <Breatainn>: that's the *nominative* plural, if I'm
not mistaken.)

> meaning the fort of the Brits. It's from Scottish Gaelic,
> a branch of brythonic, just like welsh.

No, Irish and Scottish Gaelic are Goidelic, not Brythonic.

Brian