Re: Breton (WAS: first try at conlanging)
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 8, 2002, 2:28 |
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In a message dated Mon, 7 Jan 2002 2:20:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, Dan Jones <dan@...> writes:
> Elliott Lash escreva:
> >There are Bretons on the list?! Wow, Mat an traou ganeoc'h? Karout a ran
> >an Brezhoneg.
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> <nods and smiles, feigning comprehension> Er, si.
Surely you meant: Er, ya.
Actually, I just had an epiphany last night. In Breton the word for yes is Ya. Now, this
might be taken immediately as a Germanic Loan word (c.f. German Ja, English
Yeah, so forth). But then again, maybe it's a Celtic Cognate of this word. I
say this because it also appears in Welsh: ie "yes" (only used in some
circumstances). Or maybe we're just dealing with one loan word, borrowed from
the Anglo-Saxons, and then brought to France by the Bretons...hmm..wonders.
>> I'd like to learn it properly, though.
Yes you should! Go here: http://www.kervarker.org/english/roll.html
It got me started. :)
Elliott
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