> 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.
> >
> > <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