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Re: New Brithenig words, part Deux.

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Thursday, May 24, 2001, 5:28
Am 05/22 12:21  Padraic Brown yscrifef:

> goose, eser < anser
I would suggest og < oca, this would be more in keeping with other Romance languages.
> hog, porch < porcus
Yes.
> ring (to place a ring in), anular < anulare
This verb seems to derive in Romance languages from the noun anellus rather than directly from the verb anulare. I would suggest anellar.
> snail, cogle < cochlea
This one proved to be quite a battle. It seems that cochlea dropped out of Vulgar Latin and in France and Iberia was replaced by *caracol borrowed from Arabic *karkara. It even effects [escargot]. I looked at Brythonic but can find no immediate etymology for [malwen]. For now I would suggest *caragol.
> sheep, mollon < Celt. molton-
Well, I had oigl, but I will accept mollt/mollton, having looked at other email. Maybe mollt is a collective noun.
> shear, tonner < tondere
oddly enough I had tuner, but toner is correct.
> corn, tridig' < triticeus
tridig already means wheat, so extending it to mean corn as a cereal crop is acceptable. Note an individual particle is called [yn gran].
> blow a horn (as on a truck or train), glaesoner = Fr claxonner > play a horn, dunar gwent a (or just gwenter) >
Preliminary observation indicates that Brithenig does not distinguish these differences, using words like sufflar, sonar, canhar and iogar freely with [yn corn]. Sufflar means blow and iogar means play, but the other two, sonar and canhar can be used with either meaning. -- - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@griffler.co.nz http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html Your voice has been heard.

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