[Spellyans] "become" with nouns

[nicholas williams]

Degoyth is a compound of cotha 'fall'. The stress is on the first  
syllable.
Gostoyth is gostyth in CW and the second syllable is unstressed.
Not infrequently boys 'to be' is written, although the word never had  
a diphthong.
This, I believe, is because oy (OC ui) monophthongised to o: and thus  
fell together with o:
from other sources.
This is why bos to be is often boys, and boys 'food' < OC buit is  
often bos.

Nicholas


On 2 Nov 2008, at 13:59, Tom Trethewey wrote:

> Impossible to tell without a time-machine. Is the <oy> in degoyth  
> and wostoyth stressed or unstressed?
>
> --- On Sun, 2/11/08, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] "become" with nouns
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Date: Sunday, 2 November, 2008, 1:53 PM
>
> On 2 Nov 2008, at 13:45, Tom Trethewey wrote:
>
> > Why spell degoth with <o>, when in the verse quoted it is spelled
> with <oy> and rhymes with another word in <oy>?
>
> The <oy> means [o:], does it not?
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
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