seagull
SEE-guhl · noun
BrythonicEnglish
Origin
Seagull combines sea with gull, the second element borrowed from a Brythonic language, the ancient Celtic family of Britain and Brittany.
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Journey
The word simply joins sea to gull, with no recorded shift in meaning beyond that combination.
Related words
Gull is cognate with Welsh gwylan and Breton gouelan, showing the word's Brythonic roots still visible in living Celtic languages.