[Spellyans] Goat

[Craig Weatherhill]

Margh yw best hep parow is inscribed on the slate plaque which is  
placed on my mare Larnie's grave (my thanks to Nicholas for supplying  
that).  She died on Nov. 1 2008, aged 37, and was in my ownership for  
21 superb years.  She took part in 2 ITV programmes (Westcountry Lives  
and Time Travels - the Battle of Vellan-druchar), and the only film  
trailer ever produced to promote a novel (my own 'The Lyonesse  
Stone'), and is written into the third of the trilogy to be published  
later this year.

Craig

On 6 Ebr 2009, at 08:39, Jon Mills wrote:

> And also in Origo Mundi (123-7):
> "yt'hanwaf bugh ha tarow | ha margh yw best hep parow | the vap den  
> rag ymweres | gaver yweges karow | daves war ve lavarow"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Mills"
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list"
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Goat
> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:35:45 +0000
>
> This item is also found in Beunans Meriasek:
> "pen bogh ha gaver pelys" 'A billy-goat's head and a skinned nanny- 
> goat.' [Ton 1504: 3418]
> Jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nicholas williams"
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list"
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Goat
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 15:58:47 +0100
>
> ‘Goat’
> The only attestations I can find are:
>
> Gavar ‘Capra [nanny goat]’ AB: 46b, 291b
> Gavar, A goat, Gever [pl.] AB: 243a
> Gever, Gever ul [pl.] Nicholas Boson [ul = oll]
> ley, oghan, devas, ha gyffras [pl.] TH 27a
>
> The dialect word gayver means ‘sea crayfish’ < *gavar mor.
>
> On 4 Apr 2009, at 15:40, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>> gavar, pl gever, gyfras
>
>
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