Re: Cambria

Am 04/08 01:39  Eric Christopherson yscrifef:
> >Hmmm.  Comroig(idd)ar?
>
> Whence the -idd-?
>
> I know that Greek used (uses?) -izo for verbs such as "to be
> [ethnicity]"/"to become [ethnicity]." Could that be borrowed, perhaps a
> learned borrowing? Or maybe a reflex of Latin -ficare?
>
-idd-ar is the form that -izo is adopted into Brithenig.  It's exactly
the same morpheme.

> >Es-gw'll pobl ke ddisent ke nu mhoderewn rhen a gomroigiddar?
>
> "Are you the people who say that we could not Cambricize?"?
>
Got it in one, although ddisent is past definate unless I got that form
wrong.  I did it off the top of my head, basing on the memory of an
example in an old Guiness book of records on long words in agglutinating
languages.  If I remember correctly the original was in Turkish and was
"Are you the people who said that we were incapable of
Czechoslovakianising?"

> Interesting -- I thought that the first word would be *Hes-gw but I guess
> the h only comes into play AFTER gw. Makes sense.
>
That happens all the time in Brithenig.


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