[Spellyans] SWF questionable wordforms
nicholas williams
njawilliams at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 15:25:43 IST 2008
It is almost certainly Kornowika reshaped by analogy.
On 11 Sep 2008, at 11:26, Daniel Prohaska wrote:
> Not if we assume it could be a new formation based on the base
> kernow + -ek. The late attestation seems to be in favour of this
> assumption. Anyway, the Late Cornish forms appear to be in the same
> set as lowen and Jowan rather than clewes and tewlel.
> Dan
>
> From: nicholas williams
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:00 AM
>
>
> What you say may be true, but the expected form is *Kernewek <
> *Kornowika with i-affection of the ow > ew.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 10 Sep 2008, at 17:41, Daniel Prohaska wrote:
>
>
> No, I don’t think this is the case. Notice that Lhuyd gives the
> pronunciation kloüaz and toula with <ou> and not with <û>. He gives
> Kernûak, which means it goes with the words with original <ow>, like
> lowen and Jowan. Hence Kernowek is the correct word form and it
> cannot e assumed that *Kernewek was ever correct for any time
> period, even before the shift from ew to ow.
> Dan
>
> From: nicholas williams
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:44 PM
>
>
>
> Surely Kernowek (Cornowok 1572) is a development of *Kernowek by the
> rule stressed ew > ow in disyllables and polysyllables; cf. clowes,
> towlel, etc.
> This development appears early in written Cornish, cf. Ihesus crist
> leun a bete a leueris zen dowzek PA 49a.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 9 Sep 2008, at 09:46, Michael Everson wrote:
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>
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> and Breton Kerneveg, but a new formation based on Kernow + -ek. It
> seems the consistent SWF spelling ought to be Kernowek with an
> earlier pronunciation [kEr”nOUwEk] and a later [k at r”nu:@k]
>
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