Endlicher's Glossary ( la, De nominibus Gallicis) is a

glossary A glossary (from grc, γλῶσσα, ''glossa''; language, speech, wording) also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a gl ...

composed of eighteen lines of

Gaulish Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switze ...

words, mainly to do with regional placenames, translated into

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through ...

. There are seven surviving copies of it, with the oldest dating to the 8th century. It is named after

Stephan Endlicher Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804, Bratislava (Pozsony) – 28 March 1849, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. B ...

who first described it in 1836. It is also known as the

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

Glossary after the city where the first manuscript was discovered and is still held, in the

Austrian National Library The Austrian National Library (german: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of V ...

References

Bibliography

* * * * * * {{cite journal , last1=Stifter , first1=David , title=Old Celtic Languages: Gaulish , date=Spring 2012 , page=158 , url=https://rootsofeurope.ku.dk/kalender/arkiv_2012/celtic_spring/Gallisch_2_WS_2010.pdf

External links

Text with English translations

Condensed notes on likely etymologies and Indo-European connections
8th-century manuscripts Gaulish language

See also

References

Bibliography

External links