Re: Breton (WAS: first try at conlanging)
| From: | <kam@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 9, 2002, 2:25 |
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:43:11PM -0500, Padraic Brown wrote:
> Am 07.01.02, erwan ar skoul yscrifef:
>
> > Elliott Lash a écrit :
> >
> > > There are Bretons on the list?! Wow, Mat an traou ganeoc'h?
> > > Karout a ran an Brezhoneg.
> >
> > mat tre, trugarez, zoken ma z'eo un tamm yen an amzer. happy
> > you like our language. by the way, karout is a bit strong for
> > a language, it is generally used for women
Can you (Erwan) say "mat eo ganin ar Brezhoneg" for "I like B." like
I'd say "da yw genev ... " in Kernewek?
>
> Is karout love, then?
It's the verbal noun or present participle "loving, to love"
W. caru; C. kara/kare; B. karout -- same root, different endings, each
lang. has a selection and they all happen to choose a different one for
car-
The noun "love" is :
W. cariad, (carennydd); C. kerensa (< *karentydh); B. karantez
Carennydd actually means "relative, kinsman" but it's cognate with the
C & B words.
> [Having found caruyth in Kernowak.]
I don't recognise this form. It could be "karvydh" '(he) shall love' but
AFAIK -vydh (which forms a future tense separate from the present/fut.)
is only added to three or four special verb
Kernowak - Good; Kernewek - Better; Kernowek - The Work of the Devil :)
> Padraic.
> --
> Gwerez dah, chee gwaz vaz, ha leal.
Meur rastewgh
Keith
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