Armorik
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Transalpine Gaulish *Aremorika (“(place) by the sea”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸare (“in front of”) + *mori (“sea”).
Proper noun[edit]
Armorik
- (historical) Armorica
- Synonym: Britayne
- 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Franklin's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales, Oxford, published 1988, page 178:
- In Armorik, that called is Britayne, / Ther was a knyght that loved and dide his payne.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)