•Celtic borrowings: A few Celtic words, such as crag, entered what would become the English language.
•Latin loans: Roman soldiers and priests came to the British Isles before the massive invasions of Northern Europeans.
Germanic invaders called the native Celts wealas (‘foreigners’), from which the name Welsh is derived. The Celts called the invaders ‘Saxons,’ regardless of their tribe, and and this practice was followed by the early Latin writers…References to the name of the country as Engaland (‘land of the Angles’), from which came England, do not appear until c. 1000” (Crystal 7).
