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So every now and than I'll start looking into something. Once there was the Scottish Wars of Independence (that was fun), I've also gone into the Japanese language (specifically transliteration and how they have like 3 different alphabets) and tons of other things. Some times it's just because, and other times it's for one the like 6 different stories swirling around in my head. Recently I needed Gaulish names for one of these stories. (if you don't know who the Gauls were than here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauls) So I google "Gaulish Names" and got this en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categor… (I was looking for a male character). This was pitiful obviously, and in fact there are names we know of that aren't on here, the names of several clan leaders. But in clicking on the links to the names provided I did fined something interesting. First off the names meant things! I love it when that happens! And also, all the words are derived from a language called Proto-Celtic. GOOD FUCKING GOD PROTO-CELTIC. In looking up Proto-Celtic I found that it's in ongoing reconstruction, meaning scientists are currently, well, reconstructing it! Cool! But Proto-Celtic, is not cool. It's fucking confusing is what it is! Look at this! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Ce… This would seem to be some advanced linguistics shit to me and none of it makes any sense. Also here's a word list of a lot of the Proto-Celtic that has been reconstructed www.wales.ac.uk/Resources/Docu… there's a lot I know and it's also rather confusing. Why are there a million words for pot? That can't be right!

Oh hay look at this! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categor… Awesome! I literally just found this now while finding those pages again to get the links! Cool! Have to look at this.

But yeah, what I ended up doing with those Gaulish names was writing down the words the names were made up of and what they meant. They sound pretty cool on there own and I could totally use them. I'm going to go look at these Proto-Celtic names now! See ya!
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