Saturday, 2 July 2016

More Bits of Late Cornish 3 (landscape features 1)

Cornwall has a varied landscape, both natural and man-made.  Many of its features are seen in place names. When you’ve been somewhere you might want to talk about it.
Here is some in-land vocabulary:

cleudh      
a ditch
mengleudh
a quarry
mongleudh
an opencast mine
dowrgleudh
a canal
encladhva (f)
a burial site
a graveyard
a cemetery
corfflan (f)
a cemetery
dowr
water
a river, e.g. Dowr Tamar
dowrlam
a waterfall
golitha
a cataract
a cascade
gover
a stream
a brook
strem
a stream
gooth (f)
a channel
canel         (f)
a channel
belin (f)
a mill
belin wens (f)
a windmill
bal
a mine
whel
(Wheal in place names)
mine workings
shoppa
a workshop, a shop
lydn (f)
a lake
lagen (f)   
a pond
a puddle
poll  
a pond
a pit
poll prei
a clay pit
poll sten
a tin pit
menedh
mena
a hillside
brodn (f)
a hill, a breast
bre (f)
a hill, e.g. St Agnes was Breanek (1420-1499)
 

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