Learn Late Cornish Bit by Bit ~(Children's action rhyme)

Children’s Action Song.

This uses some of our verbs. Can you translate it? Extra vocabulary is given below.

Here we go round the mulberry bush on a cold and frosty morning.

 Posorn

Thero’nei ’moas ’dro dhe’n vorwedhen, vorwedhen, vorwedhen.

Thero’nei ’moas ’dro dhe’n vorwedhen, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

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Mir! Thero’nei o sevel e’mann, ’sevel e’mann, ’sevel e’mann.

Mir! Thero’nei o sevel e’mann, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Mir! Thero’nei ’omwolhy an vejeth, ’omwolhy  an vejeth, ’omwolhy  an vejeth.

Mir! Thero’nei ’omwolhy an vejeth, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Mir! Thero’nei owth omwisca, ’omwisca, ’omwisca,

Mir! Thero’nei owth omwisca, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Mir! Thero’nei o criba an pedn, ’criba an pedn, ’criba an pedn.

Mir! Thero’nei o criba an pedn, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Mir! Thero’nei o tebri ’gan ly, ’tebri ’gan ly, ’tebri ’gan ly.

Mir! Thero’nei o tebri ’gan ly, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Mir! Thero’nei o clanhe ’gan dens, ’clanhe ’gan dens, ’clanhe ’gan dens.

Mir! Thero’nei o clanhe ’gan dens, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Mir! Thero’nei o moas dhe scoll, ’moas dhe scoll, ’moas dhe scoll.

Mir! Thero’nei o moas dhe scoll, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Mir! Thero’nei o tesky Kernowek, ’tesky Kernowek, ’tesky Kernowek.

Mir! Thero’nei o tesky Kernowek, en mettin yeyn ha rewys.

(pedn posorn)

Gerva Vocabulary:

(Remember hard mutation for present participle/verbal noun: b to p, d to t, g to k

after “o” and soft mutation of feminine nouns after “an” )

morwedhen (f) (vorwedhen) = mulberry tree (mor = mulberries)                               

bejeth (f) = face (mutates to vejeth after an)                  

dens = teeth (sing. dans)

desky (tesky) = learn (learning)                                       

Kernowek = Cornish

ly = breakfast                                                           

Mir! = Look! (imperative 2s)

rewys = frozen, frosty

sevel e’mann = get up (getting up)

scoll = school                                                          

yeyn = cold