Abstract
The article deals with the culture and heritage of ancient Celts by analyzing the toponyms of Celtic origin in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, as well as in the places where the Irish diaspora is present. In accordance with the set goal, the article considers the cultural component in the meaning of linguistic units and the classifi cation of toponyms and their use in diff erent parts of the island. By the example of the analysis of the meaning of Celtic toponyms functioning in modern Ireland and Northern Ireland, it is shown that Celtic national heritage has not been lost. The study of toponyms allows us to penetrate into the worldview of the ancient people whose culture infl uenced and shaped the descendants of Celts. Key words: Celtic languages, place name, toponymy, Ireland, the Irish language, semantics.
Highlights
Language, history, geography, ethnography, and the ways of life of people over the centuries are reflected in geographical names, i.e., toponymy
The study of toponymy is the study of connections between language and culture, since culture is clearly reflected in place names
Once the Celtic languages were spoken in large areas of Western and Central Europe; they are preserved mostly in Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Scotland and are spoken by around a million speakers in total [4, p. 45]
Summary
History, geography, ethnography, and the ways of life of people over the centuries are reflected in geographical names, i.e., toponymy. Toponymy was formed at the intersection of linguistics, history and geography. Titles and names, which existed long before the advent of the letter, are free from the stamps of later times. Do place names provide us with some old words which are no longer found or are rarely used in a modern language, but they enable us to study their unusual word forms and combinations. The study of toponymy is the study of connections between language and culture, since culture is clearly reflected in place names. Any toponym carries linguistic information, and cultural knowledge
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