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- Few English words are known to come directly from Brittonic. More can be proven to derive from Gaulish, which arrived through Norman French, often strengthened in form and use by Church/state Latin. This list omits words of Celtic origin coming from later forms of Brittonic and intermediate tongues:
* See Gaulish (e.g. ambassador, bound, car, carpenter, piece), via Norman/Old French
* Other Continental Celtic (e.g. down), via Germanic
* See List of English words of Welsh origin a list which includes Cornish (e.g. coracle; crag; corgi (type of dog), likely flannel; likely gull (type of bird), iron, lawn, wrasse (type of fish))
* See Gaelic (e.g. keening, bog, bother, hubbub, glen, clan)
* See Breton (chiefly local terms in archaeology: dolmen, menhir) (en)
- 本列表列出了少量源自古布立吞语的英语单词(English words of Brittonic origin)，这类单词甚至比来自高卢语的单词还要少，而后者基本是通过法语进入英语的。然而，基于操古英语的人群与布立吞语的人群之间的社会历史关系，这也是可预料的。布立吞语对英语的影响主要体现在语法等方面。但是，有可能許多布立吞语來源的单词被相似的日耳曼詞源所遮掩掉，而這些日耳曼語詞源常被認為更为可靠（如"belly"肚：被認為是來自盎格鲁-撒克逊语"bylg"，但也可能來自通用布立吞语"*belgā"）。而有些字詞可能已被誤認為是在諾曼入侵之後从而來。 (zh)
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