Re: New Brithenig words, part Deux.

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.

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