2024 Dedh Trei Hans ha Naw 
De Lün, pajwora mis Dû
Monday, 4th November
Ma lavar coth: Nag üjy üdn wednel ow cül hav - bes hav heb gwenely veth a via drog. Kernow heb paloresow a via drog ewedh. Nanj ew cans bledhen Robert Morton Nance a wrüg fondya Keffresyans Cowethasow Kernow Goth. Palores ew aga arwòdh. Hagensol, ma palores war côta Kernow - keffres ha den bal ha den puskes. Bes rag fra dewis palores? Ma edhyn erel en Kernow - bargas, gòlan arhans martesen. Herwedh an whedhal, sperys Arthòr Gernow a bew e'n balores - hy gelvin ha diwarr ew cogh, drefen bos y vernans gojek. Anfüjik ewa dhe ladha palores. "Nyns yw marow Myghtern Arthur" (Nag ew marow Metêrn Arthòr) emedh Kernow Goth.
There's an old saying: One swallow doesn't make a summer - but a summer without any swallows at all would be bad. Cornwall without choughs would be bad too. A hundred years ago Robert Morton Nance founded the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. A chough is their symbol. What's more, there's a chough on the Cornwall coat of arms - along with a miner and a fisherman. But why choose a chough? There are other birds in Cornwall - a buzzard, a herring gull perhaps. According to the story, Arthur of Cornwall's spirit lives on in the chough - her beak and legs are blood red because he had a bloody death. It's unlucky to kill a chough. "King Arthur is not dead" says Old Cornwall.
Geryow rag hedhyw Words for today
anfüjik unlucky
arwòdh (m) symbol
bargas (m) buzzard
cogh blood red (dialect cou)
côta (m) coat, coat of arms
cowethasow societies < cowethas (f)
den bal (m) miner
den (an) puskes (m) fisherman (or pescador)
dewis to choose, pick, select. etc.
diwarr legs (dual plural) < garr (f)
gelvin (m) beak, bill
gojek ~ gosek ~ gojys ~ gosys bloody (d. gowshak)
gòlan arhans (f) herring gull, Larus argentatus
hagensol in addition, besides, what's more
herwedh according to
keffres ha as well as, along with
keffresyans (m) federation
ladha to kill
mernans (m) death (m>v after y his)
palores (f) chough (can also use chôk (m))
whedhal (m) story, tale, yarn, legend, etc.
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