[Spellyans] Goat

[Craig Weatherhill]

I think it's the OCV that has gauar but MC forms seem to have -er  
(including the place-name attestations).  Dialect has 'gayver'.  I've  
just thought of another place name which has the word, as the first  
element in a compound with -hal, 'marsh-goat' to mean 'snipe,  
woodcock'.  This is the old name for Lower Moors, St Mary's, Scilly,  
mentioned in 1652 as Gwernewgavell (for gwern an gaverhal) - source  
'Exploration of a Drowned Landscape', Charles Thomas 1985.

Craig


On 6 Ebr 2009, at 15:04, Jon Mills wrote:

> I do not think that we should adopt a form simply because certain  
> revived forms of Cornish have spelled the item that way. Not all  
> revived forms of Cornish spell this item <gavar>, as you know. Nor  
> should we eschew a particular spelling simply because it is the one  
> favoured by George. The only attested Middle Cornish form is  
> <gaver>. If we spell this item any other way, we need good reasons  
> for so doing. It is not sufficient to say, well that's what Nance  
> and Jenner did. How do you think Middle Cornish <gaver> was  
> pronounced? and how would spelling it with final <-ar> help to  
> convey that pronunciation?
> Jon
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
>> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] Goat
>> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:57:01 +0100
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>> On 6 Apr 2009, at 13:10, Jon Mills wrote:
>>
>>> The attested Middle Cornish is <gaver>. Why would we want to  
>>> change  that?
>>
>> Revived Cornish has had <gavar> from the beginning. Even Jenner has
>>  gavar, p, 80, and again p. 87 where we find davas/deves and
>> gavar/gever.
>>
>> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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