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Re: asking for the bathroom

From:Dan Jones <feuchard@...>
Date:Saturday, June 2, 2001, 2:58
Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Dan Jones wrote: > > >Padraic Brown wrote: > > > >> Yet another excellent opportunity for the Kernow to have a laugh > >> at those silly Comrow chappies who come down to rent "yn casin", > >> having in mind a quaint cottage (lla gas is house, lla gasin > >> cottage) and get rather an unpleasant surprise! > > > >Wouldn't that be "yn gesen" < CASINA? > > Dig dy 'yn gesen', dig eo 'yn casin'; k'annulan nu lla gos inteir! > > I can't find where "yn" causes any mutation. Or is the mutation always > there regardless? Also, why -en? The diminutive in question is -in as > far as I can see.
Culpa mea, I meant to write "lla gesen". I thought the -in suffix causes i-mutation, thus cas- to ces- and the feminine ending causes a-mutation, lowering the -i- to -e-, cesen.
> Then again, I never could pass the O-Level in Brithenig...
Certhiffegad 'eneral ddi Education Yscolesteg? Dan ----------------------------------------------- Ka yokonáu iti báyan: "cas'alyá abhiyo". Ka tso iti mantabayan: "yama zaláyá alánekayam la s'alika, cas'alika; ka yama yavarryekayan arannáam la vácika, labekayam vácika, ka ali cas'alyeko vanotira." ----------------------------------------------- Dan Jones

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