Yowan ap Yowan re-scryfat:
> BP Jonsson wrote:
>
> > IMO it would not be wholly amiss to use the Brithenig reflex of a
would-be
> > Latin *Gartia.
>
> I think that would be "Gerth".
>
> > What would Benedictus Philippus become in Brithenig? As for the surname
I
> > and Mr Cowan would be namesakes in Brithenig, since IIANM Ewan <
Ioannes.
>
> Philippus is given in Andrew's onomasticon (not to be confused with *the*
> Onomasticon, which exists in full only in Ill Bethisad) as Philip
/fI'lip/.
> Running "Benedictus" through the lat2bri algorithm gives "beneddth", which
> is obvious nonsense, so Andrew will have to rule on it.
Surely it's bendith, as in "ty a mew bendith". Second e lost through syncope
because it is an unstressed vowel and then the the normal change of -ict
to -ith?
Dan