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Monday, 3rd June
Ma gover bian e'n lowarth agan kentrevoges, saw nag eus hanow dhodho. Ma lies gover ha ryvars en Kernow gen hanow "Dowr" - ha ger descrifüs. Ma Dowr Camel ow cabma. Ma cabm brâs dhodho tredh Bosvena ha Wade. Ma stras ledan dhodho a ell bos beudhys. Ryvar behatna ew Dowr Sethyn. Ma treth wheg, saw rag fra "seth"? Üjy an dowr ow resek dhe'n treth compes ha heb cabm? Dowr Tamer ew ryvar leb resek. An ger ew pur goth, na ell nagonan remembra y wredhen. Thewa agan brâssa dowr, bes thew üdn ladn Pow Densher.
There is a little stream in our neighbour's garden, but it doesn't have a name. There are many streams and rivers in Cornwall with the name "Water" - and a descriptive word. The River Camel bends. It has a big bend between Bodmin and Wadebridge. It has a wide flat-bottomed valley that can be flooded. A smaller river is Seaton, the "little arrow" river. There's a nice beach, but why "arrow"? Does the water run to the beach straight and without a bend? The River Tamar is a river that flows. The word is very old, nobody can remember its root. It is our biggest river, but one bank is Devon.
Deg ger rag hedhyw Ten words for today
an brâssa the biggest
behatna smaller (SWFM byghanna)
beudhys flooded, inundated, drowned
cabma ~ cabmy to bend (SWFM kamma)
compes straight
descrifüs descriptive
gwredhen (f) root (soft mutation after y)
resek to run, flow
seth (m) arrow
stras (m) flat-bottomed valley
CAMEL (source to Trecarne) (Camel 1284,1748)
> Dowr Camel “crooked one”
SEATON (Seythyn 1302)
> Dowr Sethyn “little arrow river”
TAMAR (Tamer 997,1870)
> Dowr Tamer ?“flowing river”
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