Re: ,Language' in language name?
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 22:06 |
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Am 12.12.01, Christophe Grandsire yscrifef:
> yscrifef
> > (something
> > Celtic?)
>
> Kerno, a member of the Celto-Romance subfamily among the Romance
> languages, along with Brithenig and Breathanach, for the most
> well-known representants.
Actually, that _is_ Brithenig. Yscreus is the Kerno form, being
a sigmatic perfect: < iscref(i)set
I'm guessing that Brithenig and Kerno "am" are cognate; in B it
means "about", "around"; in K it means "surrounding", "around".
The K etymology is reasonably Celtic, though I'm not sure about
the B etymology.
In Kerno, the above would be "il 12.Dums.01, yscreus il Christophe
Grandsire:" I don't know why, but given dates like this are found
in the instrumental (identical to the nominative). You don't find
the instr. often, but it generally sticks out on account its being
fronted and set off by commas.
> Christophe.
Padraic.
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Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.
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