Re: asking for the bathroom
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 1, 2001, 17:26 |
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Dan Jones wrote:
>Padraic Brown wrote:
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>> 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.
Then again, I never could pass the O-Level in Brithenig...
Padraic.
>Dan
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