2025 Day 43

2025 Dedh Dewgens ha Trei

De Merher, dewdhegves mis Whevrel
Wednesday, 12th February

Da ew genam ow lever nowydh. My ell redya geryow e'n radnyeth cuntellys gen Joseph Thomas e'n cres an nawnjegves cansbledhen. Radn anodhans ew pecar'a nebes geryow en tavas Kernowek.

I like my new book. I can read words in the Cornish dialect collected by Joseph Thomas in the middle of the nineteenth century. Some of them are similar to some words in the Cornish language. 

Dialek (radnyeth)		Tavas Kernowek
fitty  e.g. “I aint fitty ‘tall.” “A fitty looking maid.”    horse adder      huggo        vean  e.g. “cheel vean”, little child, used as term of endearment    warra    weggas           whiddles      whitneck  “screech like a whitneck”	Suitable, proper, nice          The dragonfly      A sea cave, a cavern      Little              A pulley    The bindweed         Whims, fancies    A weasel, a stoat	fitty (Tregear Homilies had “unvitty”)    nader margh      fogow, gogow,   an ogo    bian (or mutated to vian)          a-warra    gwegas  gweges         whidhal, whiddel    codna gwydn	suitable, etc.          dragonfly (horse adder)    cave/cavernsea cave,   the cave    little, small              Above    Bindweed  Climbing or trailing weeds    Story, tale, yarn, etc.    Weasel (lit. white neck)