A Bit About Animals
There
are several words used for animals in general[1]:
best
(bestes) animal(s), beast(s)
mil
(miles) animal(s), creature(s)
eneval
(enevales) animal(s)
goodh,
gwels wild, “of the field”
bestes
gwels wild animals
dov tame
milgy “animal
dog” i.e. hunting
dog, hound
chattel cattle
edhen
(ydhyn, edhnow) bird(s)
Here
is a quotation[3]
from the Bible:
Mes
a’n dor etho an Arludh Düw a formyas pub best gwels
ha pub edhen a’n ayr … An den a ros henwyn dhe
oll chattel ha dhe’n edhnow
an air ha dhe’n bestes gwels
…
So, out of the ground
the Lord God formed every beast of the field and
every bird of the air … The man gave names to
all cattle and to the birds
of the air and to the beasts of the field …
By
adding the –va ending we have a place where animals are kept:
milva
(f) zoo
Ma
de’gol dhebm. Me a vedn moas dhe’n vilva rag mires ort an bestes gwels. (or Me a
vedn moas dhe’n vilva dhe vires ort an bestes gwels.)
I have a holiday. I
will go to the zoo to look at the wild animals.
Other
places where you might find animals include:
bargen
tir farm
gwel,
park, garth field, enclosure
kew paddock, hollow
crow
mogh pig sty
marghty,
stabel stable
keunva,
keunjy kennel
Here
are a few related place names:
Menagissey
(Milgysy 1330) hunting dog house
Tregye
(Tregy 1327) dog(-breeding)
farm
Gew
(Kew 1456) paddock. enclosure, hollow
Porthcew (Porthcue
Cove 1813) enclosure/paddock
cove
[1] note that they are old borrowings
(similarities to Latin) and have plurals ending in –s rather than in the
more Cornish –ow.
[2] notice that,
although we normally put the adjective after the noun, when the adjective forms
a compound with the noun it can come first – this also occurs in place names
[4] Middle Cornish chi for house developed into Late Cornish chei
when stressed and on its own, but as an unstressed ending appears as –ty/ti
or –jy/ji (or even –sy/si)
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