More Bits of Late Cornish 1 (places 1)

Places 1

   We have already seen that a new word can be built by adding a suffix to an existing noun, verb or adjective, e.g. by adding –va to an activity or thing we have a place where that activity happens or that thing can be found. Many of the words will be neologisms, since the activities or things did not exist when Cornish was originally spoken (we probably over-use it now!). Va is not a noun found by itself, though it means a place (or abstract idea). Words ending in –va are feminine, so some of them mutate after the definite article an:

sport	sport
sportva [1] (f)	a stadium
gwary	a game or a play to play or to act
gwariva (f)	a stage (or a theatre)
an wariva	the stage (or the theatre)
lever	a book
leverva (f)	a library (or could be just a bookshelf)
gwias	a web
gwiasva (f)	a web-site
an wiasva	the web-site
attes	comfortable or easy
attesva (f)	“comfort stop”, toilet or lavatory

Here are some examples of use:

Me a wrüg moas dhe’n leverva dhe whilas lever dhe les.	I went to the library to look for an interesting book.
Sport ew da genam. Thera vy o moas dhe sportva de Sadorn ha gwary pel droos.	I like sport. I go to a stadium on Saturday and play football.
Hedna ew y wiasva. Whei ell redya y dybyansow ena.	That is his website. You can read his ideas there.

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[1]  though we can use the loan word stadium