[Spellyans] SWF questionable wordforms

[Jon Mills]

By analogy with 'tavas', I think that 'dewas' would be better than
'dewes'. There seems to be a set of words that end '-as' in the singular
and '-osow' in the plural:Ordinalia: davas; taves
Sacrament an Altar: tavas
Bodewryd MS: tavas, tavosaw — tongue, tongues Pascon agan Arluth: beghas,
peghes
Ordinalia: begh; feghas; fehas; peg; peghosow; pehes; pehosow
Ton, Rad. (1504): pehas; fehas; pegh; fehosou
Jordan (1611): fehosowe So we should write:'dewas', 'dewosow','tavas',
'tavosow','peghas', 'peghosow'. In the case of 'dyskas', we have no
plural attested.Pascon agan Arluth: dyskas
Ordinalia: deskes; dyskes; thescas; thyskes; tyskesHowever, one might
posit a plural, '*descosow'.
Jon

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Ray Chubb"
  To: "Standard Cornish discussion list"
  Subject: Re: [Spellyans] SWF questionable wordforms
  Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:30:28 +0100

  It has to be said.  The use of 'dewes' would fit logically with using
  "taves" not 'tavas'.
  These words need to be looked together, and while we are at it; is
  there any evidence for 'dyskes' instead of 'dyscas'?
  All these words make their plurals with 'os'.
  On 17 Gwn 2008, at 08:44, Jon Mills wrote:

    Pascon agan Arluth: dewas, zewas
    Ordinalia: dewes; dywes
    Ton, Rad. (1504): dewes; deues; dewosou
    Boorde (1555): dewasWe should write 'dewes'.Jon

      ----- Original Message -----
      From: "Andrew Climo"
      To: "'Standard Cornish discussion list'"
      Subject: Re: [Spellyans] SWF questionable wordforms
      Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:34:17 +0100

      ...--------------------------SWF: diwes (n.), drink We have
      discussed this word here before and I remain sceptical that
      this is correctly reconstructed. If the Cornish word form
      were a direct cognate to Welsh diod and Breton died, we would
      expect Cornish *dies. This does not occur. We have deuaz
      (Lh), dewes (WB). I should suggest, at least as a variant,
      SWF *dewes.
      [Andrew Climo] Completely agree - diwes seems to me
      incorrectly constructed and (by analogy with god, two and
      black) I would have expected this sound to have followed suit
      to the sound [u:], hence the spelling dewes. [Andrew
      Climo] Also strongly support the dyski ~ deski and similar
      variants ...

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