Re: lunch time

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> > Perch llo h-+on nefent manugar rhen di sew wigin:
>
> I have to know, what's the -+ mean?
>
The - is a hyphen that separates the h caused by mutation from the stem
vowel, so it's a spelling conceit.  The + means the adjacent vowel is
accented with a teithith or circumflex and should be pronounced as a long
vowel.  Technically all final vowels in Brithenig are long, but here the
length is reinforced by the simplification of a /vn/ cluster.  I
understand that using + to mark a circumflex is a feature of email Welsh
so I have stolen it for Brithenig as well.

- andrew.
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