[Spellyans] Abbreviating Ordinal Numbers

[Daniel Prohaska]

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From: nicholas williams
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:47 PM

“Once you allow distinction in usage between traditional Cornish and revived
Cornish, you are really saying that revived Cornish is a conlang. That I
will not do.”

 

No, that is not what I’m saying and that it not what I’m doing. Traditional
Cornish and Revived Cornish are, however, different entities. It is true
that Revived Cornish is based on traditional Cornish and should in my
opinion, and you and others would seem to agree, be firmly based on
traditional Cornish. Making the distinction, however, is warranted. The
Revival also has a history and there are a number of terms, phrases and
usages that are established. You have noticed the resistance that many
Cornish speakers have shown to certain emendations, however true, worthy and
attested they may be. <Nessa> is widely used as “second” in Revived Cornish.
While I use <second> and recommend it, I cannot ignore that a very large
section of the revival uses <nessa>. The same goes for words such as <ilow>.
You have said something along those lines in “Clappya Kernowek”, that this
word, though based on a misunderstanding, is too well established in the
Revival to disallow its use, whether we like it or not.

Dan 

 

 

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From: nicholas williams
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:47 PM

“Once you allow distinction in usage between traditional Cornish and revived
Cornish, you are really saying that revived Cornish is a conlang. That I
will not do.

Nessa means 'next'; secùnd means 'second.'

Lhuyd gives the ordinals as: Kenza The first;  Tridzha, The third; Pazuera,
The fourth… AB: 243b. He does not give any Cornish for 'second', apparently
because he had heard secùnd only—which he did not consider Cornish.

In Origo Mundi God the Father says: 

yn secund dyth y fynna

gruthyl ebron nef' hynwys OM 17-8.

St Meriasek says:

in meys est an viijves deth

an secund feer sur a veth

sensys in pov benytha BM 2197-99.

In the Creation of the World God the Father when creating the angels says:

in second degre yfithe gwryes

try order moy yn sertan CW 51-2.

When creating heaven and earth he says:

lebmyn yn second jorna

gwraf broster a thesempys CW 80-1.

John Tregear speaks of an nessa homely 'the next homily TH 5 and in nessa
homelie TH 46 'in the next homily'.

He uses second 'second' 16 times and seconde 'second' five times.

Nessa 'second' is an unfortunate invention of the early revivalists and we
should not encourage it.

Nicholas”

 

 

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