Re: asking for the bathroom
| From: | Dan Jones <feuchard@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 2, 2001, 2:58 |
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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
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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."
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Dan Jones
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