Thursday, 14 July 2016

More Bits of Late Cornish 20 (landscape features 6)

Landscape Features 6
When you look around a landscape you see far more than inanimate geology. You see wild life; plants and animals in some form or other, many of which have found their way into the place names of Cornwall (see Place Names 9) – some a matter of pride, some more of a pest, some no longer native.  (See Landscape Features 7 for plants and creepy crawlies).
bleydh (pl. bleydhes)
wolf
lowarn       (pl. lewern)
fox
lost
tail
lostek (pl. lostoges, lostogyon)
fox (colloquial) – big-tailed, bushy-tailed
kei (pl. keun)[1]
dog
brogh (pl. brohes)
badger (“brock”)
dorgy (pl. dorgeun)
badger (“ground dog”)
dowrgy (pl. dowrgeun)
otter
gavar (f) (pl. gever)
goat
alargh (pl. elergh)      
swan
gwednel (f) (pl. gwenily)
swallow
bran (pl. briny)           
crow
kigbran (f)
carrion crow
bran vroas (f)   
raven
marghvran (f)
raven
bran dre (f)
rook
palores (f)(pl. paloresow)  
chough[2]
choha (pl. chohys)
chough
jackdaw
bargos (pl. bargojes)
buzzard
edhen (f) (pl. edhnow, edhyn)
bird
oula (pl. oulys
owl
hok  
hawk
keryth (f)
heron
logojen (f) (pl. logos)          
mouse
conin (pl. conines)
rabbit
scovarn (f)
ear
scovarnek
big-eared
scovarnek (pl. scovarnoges)
hare




[1]  initial <k> softens to <g> in second part of compound nouns, even if not feminine
[2] Gendall also  has brân ridhik for chough and brân Varadzhou for hooded crow

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