[Spellyans] Abbreviating Ordinal Numbers

[Craig Weatherhill]

I'm not sure that a progressive sequence would emerge, Eddie.  We say:  
"This year, next year, the year after next, etc."  Or, "this term,  
next term, and the summer term".  'Next' is used to denote the event  
following the present one.

I agree that mata = 'mate, fellow', from the mackerel count.

Craig



On 25 Mer 2009, at 23:16, Michael Everson wrote:

> On 25 Mar 2009, at 22:54, Eddie Climo wrote:
>
>> If, as I suspect, we only find the 1st of the above sequences, the  
>> absence of the others would seem to invalidate the premise that  
>> 'nessa' only means 'next' and not 'second'.
>
> Language (in this case semantic domain) is not constrained by that  
> kind of logical structure.
>
>> As for the alleged 'spuriousness' of the 'Nancean' legacy, Nance  
>> was a fine linguist and lexicographer.
>
> Yes, and he got some things wrong and there's not reason not to  
> recognize that and do better.
>
>> We are greatly indebted to him and to the other revivalists of his  
>> generation. And if we are able to know more about some areas of the  
>> Cornish language that they did, it's largely thanks to our standing  
>> on their shoulders.
>
> I'm sure this goes without saying.
>
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