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==Etymology==<!--linked-->
The consensus among linguists is that the ethnic name ''Belgae'' probably comes from the [[Proto-Celtic]] root ''*belg-'' or ''*bolg-'' meaning "to swell (particularly with anger/battle fury/etc.)", cognate with the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] adjective ''gebelgd'' "very angry" (weak perfect participle of the verb ''belgen'' "to become angry") and ''verbolgen'' "being angry" (strong perfect participle of obsolete ''verbelgen'' "to make angry"), as well as the [[Old English]] verb ''belgan'', "to be angry" (from [[Proto-Germanic]] ''*balgiz''), derived ultimately from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root ''*bhelgh-'' ("to swell, bulge, billow"). Thus, a Proto-Celtic ethnic name ''*Bolgoi'' could be interpreted as "the people who swell (particularly with anger/battle fury)".<ref>''Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie'' (ZcP). Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 67–69, ISSN (Online) 1865-889X, ISSN (Print) 0084-5302, //1991</ref><ref>[[John T. Koch|Koch, John]]. ''Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia''. ABC-CLIO 2006, p. 198.</ref><ref>[[Julius Pokorny|Pokorny, Julius]]. ''Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch'' (1959), Bern - Muenchen - Francke, pp. 125-126.</ref><ref>[[Bernhard Maier|Maier, Bernhard]]. ''Dictionary of Celtic religion and culture'', Boydell & Brewer, 1997, p. 272.</ref><ref>[[Julius Pokorny|Pokorny, Julius]], ''The pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland'', Celtic, DIAS, 1960 (reprint 1983), p. 231.</ref>