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This is a guide to pronounce the Latin names, or Latin pronunciation of Celtic names. Syllabic patterns follow the vowels. For example:

Dumnonii = Doom-no-ni-E
Ordovices = Ord-o-wik-es
Demetae = Dem-e-teh

“i” at the end of a name (Iceni, Dobunni, etc.)
- Pronounce hard “E”
- Unless it ends with an “es”, pronounce e as soft “e” (eh)
  - like ae (eh)
2 i’s at the end of a name (Cantii, Dumnonii, etc.)
- Pronounce separately (Canti-E)
Pronounce v’s as w’s.
Pronounce au’s as “ow”
Pronounce u’s as “oo”
c’s in names (Iceni, Catuvellauni, etc.)
- Pronounce hard “C” (Ikeni)

Pre-Roman Britain

Gabrantovices

The territory is devoid of Briganti or Parisii, and a notable bay that was ostensibly after a local people. The bay was simply named by Ptolemy without mentioning a related tribe.

Lopocares / Tectoverdi / Corionototae (Nototae)

A “Corie” is a Roman governmental center for rural provinces. So, In the times of the Romans, these speculated tribes had some form of autonomy from the Briganti in the rural regions in the north of the Briganti territory around the Tyne river valley.

Status prior to Roman involvement is unknown

Ilse of Man

Inhabited by unknown peoples that are theorized to speak the poorly documented “Common Brittonic” or some descendant language. Or, spoke a Goidelic and or Goidelic descendant language.

Pre-Roman Ireland

Muscraige / Orsaige

The Muscraige are a tribe, claimed to be related to the Iverni. Meanwhile, the Orsaige are a tribe, claimed to be related to the Usdiai

For these sub-tribes and their technical territories, I am at a loss of information to go off of to tie them to pre-Roman, Irish tribes. For the Muscraige, there is very little to go off of, besides the Muskerry barronies (~1500s-1898). On the same take, the Orsaige, or more specifically, the medieval kingdom‘s historical ties, go back at most, to the mid 1st century (150AD).