Brytho-Hellenic

Brytho-Hellenic
Elynik (to kaen)
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ɛ'le:nik 'tɔ 'kai̯n]]
Created by	–
Native to	Elas to Kaen
Native speakers	52 millions (2012)
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Celto-Hellenic Brytho-Hellenic
Official status
Official language in	Elas to Kaen
Language codes
ISO 639-1	el
ISO 639-2	ely
ISO 639-3	ely
New Greece or "Elas to Kaen"

General information

Brytho-Hellenic, Brythohellenic or simply Neohellenic (the native name is Elynik) is a language that is spoken nowadays in a different timeline in a country that corresponds almost exactly to our England and to our Wales. In that timeline the Persians have won the wars against Greece and the Greeks have been forced to emigrate and to flee. Firstly the Greeks find protection in Magna Graecia, but, as the Persians conquer those territories, they shift to Northern Italy, where the Romans withstand the Persian troops. In 389 b.C. Rome is destroyed and both Romans and Greeks flee to Carthage, enemy of the Persian empire. Together they try to attack the Persian fleet, but they are defeated again. In the last days of 382 b.C. an imposing expedition sails away from a harbour on the coast of New Carthage - our Cartagena in Spain. Its mission is to find new territories where they can live in peace and prosperity, far from the Persian threat. In 381 b.C. Conon the Athenian and his Greeks reach our Scilly Islands: they have chosen to sail northward, because they had heard about legends that spoke about a fertile and grassy island in the North. It is the beginning of the New Greece or Elas to Kaen (IPA ['ɛlas 'tɔ 'kai̯n]).

Phonology

Alphabet

After the defeat against the Persians almost the entire Greek people fled towards Roman territory: Rome triplicated its population and was greekized. During their living together Greeks and Romans used mainly the Greek language to communicate, whereas the Latin language became a secondary and socially lower language, spoken mainly by common people. Nevertheless - almost incomprehensibly - the Greeks adopted the Latin alphabet, maybe trying to be understood even by the lower social classes. As we are talking about the modern language, we don't consider the first versions of the alphabet that were used in ancient times. The alphabet of Brythohellenic contains 23 letters:

Letters	Pronunciation	Further informations
a	[a] / [ǝ]	in unstressed syllables, above all in the last syllable, it tends to be pronounced as a schwa
b	[b]	-
d	[d]	-
dh	[ð] / [j] / [v] / [ ]	generally it is pronounced as th in the word this; when it occurs between vowels its pronunciation can vary between [j] and [v]: generally it is [j] when the vowel that follows is e, i or y, while it is [v] when the vowel that follows is a, o, u or w. Some speakers don't pronounce it at all when it comes in patterns a-a, o-o, u-u, o-u, u-a, u-o and other combinations between w, o and a
e	[ɛ]	it is always pronounced open
f	[f]	-
g	[g] / [x] / [h]	when it comes before or after other consonants it is pronounced [g], between vowels it is pronounced [x], even if some speakers tend to pronounce it as [h] in this position
h	[h]	-
i	[i] / [j]	often it forms a diphthong when precedes or follows another vowel
k	[k]	it is always pronunced as in the English word kite
l	[l]	-
m	[m]	-
n	[n]	-
o	[ɔ] / [o]	it can be either open or closed, but it doesn't affect the meaning
p	[p]	-
r	[r]	trilled just as in Italian
s	[s]	always voiceless
t	[t]	-
th	[θ]	as th in the English thin
u	[i]	-
v	[v]	-
w	[u] / [w]	it is pronounced as [u] when it is followed by a consonant; it is pronounced [w] when it is preceded or followed by a vowel; when it is followed by l or r it can have either a consonantal or vocalic value, to distinguish it, it is written ŵ when it has a vocalic value; in the diphthong wy it can be either the vocalic (it is written ŵy) or consonantal element (it is written wŷ)
y	[i] / [e]	in monosyllabic words it is read as [i], in polysyllabic words it is read [i] if in the last syllable, otherwise [e]; in the diphthong yw it can be either the vocalic (it is written ŷw) or consonantal element (it is written yŵ)

Consonantal phonemes

Brythohellenic has the following consonantic phonemes:

Phonemes	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	p b			t d			k g
Affricate
Nasal	m	(ɱ)		n			(ŋ)
Fricative		f v	θ ð	s			x	h
Approximant				r̥ r		j	w
Lateral approximant				l

Vocalic phonemes

Brythohellenic has the following vowel system:

Phonemes
Opening	Front	Back
Closed	i	u
Mid-closed	e	o
Mid-open	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a

There is also the schwa sound [ǝ]. The natives don't consider it a distinct sound, though, and as it occurs specially at the end of words where it is written an a, they consider it to be a true 'a'!

Diphthongs and digraphs

In Brythohellenic there are 18 diphthongs, that is clusters of two vowels pronounced with a single emission of air. These diphthongs are:

Diphthongs	Pronunciation
ae	[ai̯]
aw	[au̯]
ei, eu, ey	[ɛi̯]
ew	[ɛu̯]
ia	[ja]
ie	[jɛ]
io	[jɔ] / [jo]
iw	[ju]
oe	[ɔi̯] / [oi̯]
uw	[iu̯]
wa	[wa]
we	[wɛ]
wi	[wi]
wo	[wɔ] / [wo]
ŵy / wŷ	[ui̯] / [wi] - [we]
ŷw / yŵ	[iu̯] - [eu̯] / [ju]

Brythohellenic has got only one digraph: rh [r̥], which is rare enough. The other combinations as dh and th are considered true letters.

Stress

Ancient Greek has undergone deep changes during its coexistence with Latin and above all with the Brythonic languages. Two main changes have been:

• often the hiatus with 'i' has become a diphthong, ex.: σοφία > *σόφια > hef, "knowledge";
• almost always the last syllable has fallen, ex.: καινός > kaen, "new"; θάνατος > thanadh, "death".

These two phoenomena have influenced heavily the stress system of Brythohellenic. Nowadays the stress steadily falls on the last but one syllable: this means that in the plural forms of nouns it shifts, ex.: thalas ['θalas], "sea" > thalasas [θa'lasas], "seas"; aelŵr ['ai̯lur], "cat" > aelŵroe [ai̯'luroi̯], "cats".

Grammar

Nouns, gender and number

Even if Ancient Greek had three genders and three numbers, the system simplified a lot and Modern Elynik has got two genders - masculine and feminine - and two numbers - singular and plural. It is hard to distinguish the gender of a noun, because there are not specific gender-linked endings: mostly nouns end with consonant regardless for the gender. Forming plural is not so complicated, as there are only three plural endings:

• oe, that is typical of masculine nouns;
• ae, that is used with feminine nouns;
• as, less spread and used with both masculine and feminine nouns.

However there are also some irregularities which have to be learned by heart, ex.: the plural of ith, "fish", is ithwas; the plural of gys, "earth", is gae; the plural of ŵr, "water", is wdhas, and so on. Irregular nouns, however, are few. Here is a list of nouns with plural form:

Singular	Plural	Gender	Meaning	Singular	Plural	Gender	Meaning
lidh	lidhoe	masculine	stone	pwd	pwdas	masculine	foot
kŵr	kŵrae	feminine	land	ŵran	wranoe	masculine	sky, heaven
kryvid	kryvidas	feminine	shoe	fws	fwdhas	masculine	light
sŵy	sŵae	feminine	life	lws	lwsae	feminine	language
thyr	thyras	masculine	animal	bivyl	bivloe	masculine	book
ef	afae	feminine	love	alwvik	alwvikae	masculine	fox
koeran	koeranoe	masculine	lord	koeren	koeranae	feminine	lady
enyr	annyr	masculine	man	gunys	gunae	feminine	woman
pur	puroe	masculine	fire	kefel	kefalae	feminine	head
tov	tovoe	masculine	place	kron	kronoe	masculine	time
odhyr	odhroe	masculine	morning	yver	yverae	feminine	day
dyl	dylae	feminine	afternoon	efer	eferae	feminine	evening
nuth	nuthas	feminine	night	hilyn	hilynae	feminine	moon
seldh	seldhoe	masculine	priest	sildh	seldhae	feminine	priestess
dennyr	dennyras	masculine	tree	kadh	kadhas	masculine	hand
etyr	eteras	masculine	star	omadh	omadhas	masculine	eye
kedhydh	kedhydhas	masculine	teacher	fil	filoe	masculine	friend
ethyr	ethroe	masculine	enemy	edhaer	edhaeroe	masculine	lover
kuwn	kunoe	masculine	dog	kom	komoe	masculine	world

Loan words

As the Greeks reached Great Britain found a completely new world, full of animals and plants they had never seen. Celtic people had highly different customs and beliefs and spoke an unintelligible language. Even if the Greeks considered them to be barbarian, they were the "owners" of the new land, so Greeks had to learn to live together with Brythons and to forget about prejudices like "superiority" or "inferiority". During the coexistence and the mixing with Brythons, the Greeks have adopted some Celtic words:

Original word	Singular	Plural	Gender	Meaning
derwen	darwen	darwenae	feminine	oak
derwydd	darwydh	darwydhas	masculine	priest, magician, druid
bryn	bryn	brynae	feminine	hill
nifwl	nivwl	nivloe	masculine	mist, fog
llyn	lyn	lynoe	masculine	lake
gwellt	gweldh	gweldhas	feminine	grass
ofydd	ovydh	ovydhas	masculine	ovate
bardos	bard	bardas	masculine	poet
awen	awen	awenae	feminine	inspiration
bleydh	bleudh	bleudhas	masculine	wolf
lowarth	lowarth	lowarthas	feminine	paradise
calon	kalen	kalenae	feminine	heart

Some words have a counterpart whose meaning has shifted: from the Greek ουάτις, a word mentioned by Strabo and of Proto-Celtic origin (*vatis), comes gwedh, "astute person" < "one who can predict the moves of enemies" < "soothsayer". From the same root comes of course the Brythonic word ofydd, that has been taken as loan once the Greeks reached Great Britain. Another example is the word bard, that has substituted the Ancient Greek ἀοιδός, whose descendant, awid, has got the meaning of "artist". Even the word awen has substituted another Greek word, daevon < *δαιμόνος < δαιμόνιον, that now has the meaning of "puck, spirit"; the plural Awenae is also used to mean Mwsae, plural of Mws < Mοῦσα, "Muse".

Formation of feminine

It isn't easy to distinguish between a masculine and a feminine noun, because there is no gender-linked ending. However, when we speak about entities that have got a physical gender, such as people and animals, it can be useful to be able to distinguish between masculine and feminine gender. Mostly the feminine form of such nouns come from the masculine one by adding some suffixes:

• -yr (pl. -(y)rae), mostly added to masculine nouns ending with -ydh and denoting agent, ex.: melbydh (= "singer") > melbydhyr (plural: melbydhrae);
• -en (pl. -anae), added to many nouns, ex.: ethyr > ethren (plural: ethranae); fil > filen (plural: filanae);
• -e- (pl. -a-ae), that replaces the ending a + consonant of many masculine nouns, ex.: elaf (= "deer") > elef (plural: elafae); maw (= "sorcerer") > mew (= "witch") (plural: mawae).

Sometimes the feminine form is obtained by changing the last vowel, ex.: seldh > sildh (plural: seldhae).

Articles

Brythohellenic hasn't got indefinite article, to translate phrases like "a cat" or "some women" we have just to omit the article: aelŵr means both "a cat" and "cat", and gunaes means both "some women" and "women". There is only one kind of article, the definite one: this article is used to talk about well known things that are familiar to the speakers, because they have already been talked about, or because they belong to the experiences baggage of the speakers, that is we use the definite article to talk about known informations, to talk about determined informations. The definite article has got one invariable form, to, that is used both for masculine and feminine nouns, for singular and plural nouns: to omyr, "the rain"; to hwvadh, "the body"; to lwsae, "the languages"; to nysoe, "the islands", and so on.

When a noun is determined, that is preceded by the article or other determiners (such as possessives or demonstratives) and is followed by an adjective - in standard Elynik the adjectives always follow the substantives - the article shifts bewtween noun and adjective, ex.:

• to omyr > omyr to surin (= "the cold rain", lit. "rain the cold (one)");
• to nysoe > nysoe to euwedhoe (= "the fertile islands", lit. "islands the fertile (ones)").

Even when a noun doesn't need the article - for example proper nouns - it appears between this noun and the possible adjective, ex.:

• Elas (= "Greece") > Elas to Kaen (= "New Greece", lit. "Greece the New (one)");¹
• Elyn (= "Helena") > Elyn to plyd kalin (= "the most beautiful Helena", lit. "Helena the most beautiful (one)").

¹ Nowadays they tend to use the word Elas to mean Elas to Kaen, while the "Old Greece" is known as Elas to Paladh.

Adjectives

Elynik adjectives always follow the noun(s) they are referred to: when the noun is undetermined they simply follow it, but, when the noun is determined, then the definite article, to, or the possessives are put between the noun and the adjective. Usually adjectives' singular form is identical for masculine and feminine, even if there can be exceptions, the plural forms are two, instead: one for masculine, usually ending in -oe, and one for feminine, ending in -ae. Some adjectives:

Singular	Masculine plural	Feminine plural	Meaning	Singular	Masculine plural	Feminine plural	Meaning
iwŷdh	iwŷdhoe	iwŷdhae	good	penyr	penyroe	penyrae	bad
elyv	elvoe	elvae	happy	lur	luroe	lurae	sad
egrin	egrinoe	egrinae	tall / high	thaval	thavaloe	thavalae	short
kalin	kalinoe	kalinae	beautiful / goodlooking	aegyr	aegroe	aegrae	ugly
meal	mealoe	mealae	big / great	migrin	migrinoe	migrinae	little / small
paladh	paladhoe	paladhae	old	yvik	yvikoe	yvikae	young
thenar	thenaroe	thenarae	strong	athin	athinoe	athinae	weak
thervin	thervinoe	thervinae	hot	surin	surinoe	surinae	cold
fover	foveroe	foverae	terrible	plys	plysoe	plysae	near / close
tyledhin	tyledhinoe	tyledhinae	far / distant	semyk	semykoe	semykae	tired

Some usage examples:

• migrin + aelŵr > aelŵr migrin (= "(a) little cat");
• meal + to enyr > enyr to meal (= "the big man");
• semyk + koeren evon > koeren evon semyk (= "my tired lady").

Comparative

The higher degree comparative is usually formed with the word wa that precedes the adjective to which is referred, the second term is introduced by y ex.:

• Andh wa kalin y dennyr > A flower more beautiful than a tree.

In the written language it is still used the old form with the suffix -wn, ex.:

• Andh kaldhwn y dennyr > A flower more beautiful than a tree.

The same degree comparative is formed with the periphrasis wdhys + adjective + yfer, ex.:

• Andh wdhys kalin yfer dennyr > A flower as beautiful as a tree,

The lower degree comparative is formed with the periphrasis mŷon + adjective + y, ex.:

• Andh mŷon kalin y dennyr > A flower less beautiful than a tree.

Adjectives with an irregular higher degree comparative

Some adjectives have got an irregular form of higher degree comparative:

Positive	Comparative	Positive	Comparative
iwŷdh	aredhwn	penyr	yswn
kalin	kaldhwn	red (= "easy")	rawn
migrin	medhwn	meal	myswn
polus (= "many/much")	pledhwn	alwyn (= "painful/agonizing")	aldhwn

Irregular higher degree comparatives are used as normal comparatives, ex.:

• Ys hi aredhwn y ew - You are better than me.

The comparative form is the same for both masculine and feminine nouns, but in the plural the two forms are different: aredhwnoe vs. aredhwnae.

Superlative

The superlative degree is generally formed with the word plyd, that precedes the adjective to which is referred. The relative superlative is the same form of the absolute superlative, but it takes the definite article and is generally followed by a limitation, that is expressed with en (= "in") / evan (= "of"), ex.:

• Andh to plyd kalin en to kom - The most beautiful flower in the world.

In the written language it is also used the old superlative with the suffix -yd:

• Andh to kalyd evan to kom - The most beautiful flower of the world.

Adjectives with an irregular superlative

The same adjectives that have an irregular higher degree comparative have got also an irregular superlative form:

Positive	Comparative	Superlative	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
iwŷdh	aredhwn	aryd	penyr	yswn	ykyd
kalin	kaldhwn	kalyd	red	rawn	rad
migrin	medhwn	elegyd	meal	myswn	meyd
polus	pledhwn	plyd	alwŷn	aldhwn	alwŷd

Other adjectives form the comparative and the superlative degree regularly, ex.:

Positive	Comparative	Superlative
paladh	wa paladh / paladhwn	plyd paladh / paladhyd
lur	wa lur / lurwn	plyd lur / luryd
egrin	wa egrin / egrinwn	plyd egrin / egrinyd
plys	wa plys / plyswn	plyd plys / plysyd

The superlative has got only one singular form, in the plural masculine and feminine are different, ex.: aryd > arydoe, arydae.

Numerals

Numerals don't inflect. Here are the numerals from 0 to 100:

Number	Cardinal	Ordinal	Number	Cardinal	Ordinal
0	wden	-	1	eis	prwdh
2	dios	deudher	3	trys	tridh
4	tethar	tethardh	5	pen	pendh
6	es	eth	7	eft	eudodh
8	oth	owodh	9	enag	enadh
10	deg	degadh	11	enneg	ennegadh
12	dydeg	dydegadh	13	trydeg	trydegadh
14	tethardeg	tethardegadh	15	penneg	pennegadh
16	edheg	edhegadh	17	efteg	eftegadh
18	othwdeg	othwdegadh	19	enadeg	enadegadh
20	iwaen	iwaed	21	iwaen sun eis	iwaed sun prwdh
22	iwaen sun dios	iwaed sun deudher	30	iwaen-deg	iwaendegadh
31	iwaen-deg sun eis	iwaendegadh sun prwdh	40	dioewaen	dioewaed
50	dioewaen-deg	dioewaendegadh	60	triwaen	triwaed
70	triwaen-deg	triwaen-degadh	80	tetharwaen	tetharwaed
90	tetharwaen-deg	tetharwaendegadh	100	egadh	egadhod

From egadh on, the numbers can be masculine or feminine:

Number	Cardinal	Ordinal	Number	Cardinal	Ordinal
200	diagesioe/ae	diagesiod	300	trygesioe/ae	trygesiod
400	tethragesioe/ae	tethragesiod	500	pennagesioe/ae	pennagesiod
600	esagesioe/ae	esagesiod	700	eftagesioe/ae	eftagesiod
800	othagesioe/ae	othagesiod	900	enagesioe/ae	enagesiod
1000	hilioe/ae	hiliod	2000	diahilioe/ae	diahiliod
3000	tryhilioe/ae	tryhiliod	4000	tethrahilioe/ae	tethrahiliod
5000	pennahilioe/ae	pennahiliod	6000	esahilioe/ae	esahiliod
7000	eftahilioe/ae	eftahiliod	8000	othahilioe/ae	othahiliod
10000	mirioe/ae	miriod	11000	mirioe/ae sun hilioe/ae	miriod sun hiliod
20000	dimirioe/ae	dimiriod	100000	egadh-hilioe	egadh-hiliod
500000	pennagesioe-hilioe	pennagesioe-hiliod	1000000	kryn	krynod
2000000	dios krynoe	deudher krynod	1000000000	riagryn	riagryd

Pronouns and kinds of adjectives

Personal pronouns

Brythohellenic personal pronouns have three cases: nominative, accusative, and dative. In Brythohellenic there is no need to indicate subject pronoun before the verb, whereas in English it is compulsory.

Case	1st person
	Singular		Plural
Nominative	ew		vys
Accusative	ve		vas
Dative	voe		vin
Case	2nd person
	Singular		Plural
Nominative	hi		fy
Accusative	he		fas
Dative	hoe		fyn
Case	3rd person
	Masculine s.	Feminine s.	Masculine pl.	Feminine pl.
Nominative	o	ý	oe	ae
Accusative	ton	tyn	tws	tas
Dative	tw	ty	toes	taes

In a sentence the pronouns in dative case are positioned before of those in accusative case, so prepositions can be omitted, ex.:

• Dŵre voe tyn - Give it to me.

The neuter pronoun it is translated in Brythohellenic with ý. The feminine pronoun ý is written with the accent to be distinguished from the preposition y (= "than"). When there are a pronoun and a noun, the pronoun always precedes the noun, ex.:

• Dŵre tyn brys to koeren - Give it to the lady;
• Dŵre ty to kuwn - Give her the dog.

Demonstratives

There are two demonstratives: ŷwn (= "this") and ledh (= "that"). The first demonstrative matches perfectly the first person, whereas the second one matches both the second and the third person:

Person	Adverb	Demonstrative	Meaning
1st	nawdh (= here)	ŷwn	this
2nd	kys (= there)	ledh	that
3rd

Demonstratives don't inflect and always follow the nouns they are referred to, and the nouns take also the article, ex.:

• To aelŵr ŷwn - This cat.
• Yv en to oek ŷwn - I'm in this house;
• Ergw e tho oekoe ledh - I come from those houses.

Possessives

Possessives can be used both as pronouns and adjectives. When they are used as adjectives, they always follow the noun they refer to.

Possessives
Person	Singular	Plural
ew	evon	evas
hi	hon	has
o	dhw
ý	dhys
vys	yveron	yveras
fy	uveron	uveras
oe / ae	dhwn

Here are some examples:

• Aelŵr evon - My cat;
• Kuwn hon - Your dog;
• Gunys dhw - His wife;
• Enyr dhys - Her man;
• Thyr yveron - Our animal;
• Fil uveron - Your friend;
• Kalen dhwn - Their heart.

Plural:

• Aelŵroe evas - My cats;
• Kunoe has - Your dogs;
• Gunae dhw - His wives;
• Annyr dhys - Her men;
• Thyras yveras - Our animals;
• Filoe uveras - Your friends;
• Kalenae dhwn - Their hearts.

Possessived don't allow the use of the article. Third person possessives don't inflect.

Relatives and 'interro-exclamatories'

Interrogative pronouns, which are used also to make exclamations, function also as relatives:

Case	Tis (who)	Ti (what)
Nominative	tis	ti
Accusative	ten	ti
Dative	ty	ty
Genitive	twn	twn

Ex.:

• Tis it o? - Who is he?
• Tis kuwn kalin! - What a beautiful dog!
• Twn it to bivyl ŷwn? - Whose is this book?
• Ty yrygas tyn? - Whom have you said it to?
• To ledh it to gunys ten filew - That is the woman whom I love.

Indefinites

Indefinites give us incomplete informations, because they don't define the precise quantity or the identity:

Indefinite	Meaning
wdhis	someone/anyone
edhi	something/anything
mydys	nobody
myden	nothing
olen	each
pan	all
edher	other
ovodh	same, self

When pan is used as adjective, it has the singular form pas and the plural forms panas for masculine and pasae for feminine. Also edher has got plural: edheroe for masculine and edherae for feminine.

Indefinites can be formed also with the word alen:

• To alenoe/ae - The others;
• Krysys edhi alen? - Do you need something else?
• Gnoky ý wdhis alen? - Does she know someone else?

Adverbs

Usually adverbs are formed by suffixation: many adverbs derive from adjectives, to that the suffix -ews is added. Some examples:

• elyv > elvews (happy - happily);
• lur > lurews (sad - sadly);
• meal > mealews (great - greatly);
• thenar > thenarews (strong - strongly);
• athin > athinews (weak - weakly).

Some adverbs have got suppletive forms, ex.: iwŷdh > eu; penyr > fawl.

Adverbs occupy a precise position within the sentence:

• 1) adverbs always follow subject when in the sentence there is only the verb ynyn (= to be), ex.: yv mal elyv (= "I am very happy"), dagrwŷ ý thenarews (= "She cries strongly");
• 2) adverbs always precede adjectives, ex.: it o elion lur (= "He's a little sad").

Place adverbs

In Brythohellenic place adverbs nawdh and kys inflect to express state or movement to and from. The adverb w, "where", also inflects:

Form	W	Nawdh	Kys
State	w	nawdh	kys
Movement to	oe	nawdhes	kyses
Movement from	ŵen	nawdhen	kysen

The adverb w has got also a relative function:

• It to ŷwn to peli, ŵen ergw - This is the town where I come from;
• It to ledh to peli, oe ovylw ferthae - That is the town where I have to go.

Other place adverbs are: alodh, alodhes, alodhen, respectively "elsewhere", "from elsewhere", "(to) elsewhere"; wdhovw, "nowhere" and "from nowhere", wdhovon, "(to) nowhere".

Vocabulary

Colour terms

The colour system of Brythohellenic is particular, because, except white, black and red, colours' names derive from flowers or natural elements. Historians have supposed that as the Greeks of Conon reached Great Britain they used natural elements to estabilish a first contact between their languagage and the language of Celtic people. There are also other colour terms that come from Ancient Greek, such as klŵr (= "green"), porhur (= "purple-red"), arwirin (= "silver") or hegin (= "bronze-coloured"), but they are old-fashioned nowadays and they are used almost exclusively in literature.

Colours in Brytho-Hellenic.

Colour terms
Source	Brythohellenic	English
μέλαινα (Ancient Greek)	melaen	black
κελαινός (Ancient Greek); furvus (Latin)	kelaen; fwrg	dark, obscure
λαμπρός (Ancient Greek)	lemyr	light, pale, fair
lividus (Latin), llwyd (Welsh), disliw (Cornish)	liwŷs	grey
gwyn (Welsh), gwynn (Cornish)	gwŷn	white
φαλακρός (Ancient Greek) x eglur (Welsh)	faeglur	bright, lucid
rudhvelyn (Cornish), "orange"	velin	orange
ἐρυθρός (Ancient Greek), rhudd (Welsh), rudh (Cornish)	rudhyr	red
πορφυροῦς (Ancient Greek)	porhur	purple-red
gwaed (Welsh), "blood"	gwaedin	burgundy
crinllys (Welsh), "violet (flower)"	krilysin	violet, purple
ινδικόν (Ancient Greek), "that comes from India"	ynnik	indigo
χλωρός (Ancient Greek); gwels (Cornish), "grass"	klŵr; gwŷlsin	green
ebron (Cornish), "sky"	brenin	light blue, cyan
θάλασσα (Ancient Greek), "sea"	thalesin	dark blue
mêl (Welsh), mel (Cornish), "honey"	mylin	yellow
dur (Cornish), "earth"	durin	brown
χρυσός (Ancient Greek), "gold"; owr (Cornish), "gold";	krusin; ewrin	golden
rosen (Cornish), "rose"	resin	pink
ἄργυρος (Ancient Greek), "star"; steren (Cornish), "star"	arwirin; ytrin	silver
χαλκός (Ancient Greek), "bronze"; efydd (Welsh), "bronze"	helgin; yvydhin	bronze-coloured

Fruit and vegetables

Fruit and vegetables
Source	Brythohellenic	English
μῆλον (Ancient Greek), "apple"	myl	red apple
afal (Welsh), aval (Cornish), "apple"	aval	yellow apple, generic apple
κυδωνία (Ancient Greek), "quince"	kudwn	green apple
στάλαγμα (Ancient Greek), "drop"	talamadh	grape
citreum (Latin), "lemon"	sidhyr	lemon
χρυσοῦν μῆλον (Ancient Greek), "golden apple"	krumyl	orange
هلو (Persian), "peach"	heulv	peach
ἐλαία (Ancient Greek), "olive"	eladh	olive
لیموترش (Persian), "lemon"	lamewtyr	lime
κέρασος (Ancient Greek), "cherry"	seres	cherry
ruber (Latin), "bright red"	rŷwyr	watermelon
αγγούριον (Ancient Greek), "cucumber"	onwŷr (pl. onwŷr-)	cucumber
انجیر (Persian), "fig"	neyar	fig
ananas (Tupian or Guaraní) > ananassum (Neolatin), "pineapple"	nanas	pineapple
sevien (Cornish), syfien (Welsh), "strawberry"	syvyn	strawberry
νύξ (Ancient Greek), "night" + mwyaren (Welsh), "berry"	nithwŷrn	blueberry
du (Welsh), du (Cornish), "black" + mwyaren (Welsh), "berry"	duwŷrn	blackberry
tomatl (Nauhatl) > tomatĭlum (Neolatin), "tomato"	tovydh	tomato
mahiz (Arawakan) > mahīsum (Neolatin), "maize"	mehys	maize
موز (Persian), "banana"	mews	banana
زردآلو (Persian), "apricot"	serdel	apricot
προυνον (Ancient Greek), "plum"	brwn	plum
قهوة (Arabic) > قهوه (Perisan), "coffee"	hewŷf	coffee
茶 (Chinese) > چای (Persian), "tea"	sea (pl. seae)	tea
xocolatl (Nahuatl) > chocolatĭlum (Neolatin), "chocolate"	segolydh	cacao (beans)
باذنجان (Arabic) > بادنجان (Persian), "eggplant"	badynyn	eggplant
cucurbĭta (Latin), "courgette"	kurvedh	courgette