[Spellyans] cockles

[Daniel Prohaska]

Doesn’t Lhuyd give kẏligi?

Dan

 

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From: nicholas williams

Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:16 PM

To: Standard Cornish discussion list

Subject: Re: [Spellyans] cockles

 

Nance prefixes *cocla with an asterisk, which implies it's a direct borrowing from English cockle, itself borrowed from Norman French.

Lhuyds kûligi, on the other hand,  is presumably from *cochylia, plural of *cochylium, a vulgar form of conchylium "a cockle-shell".

The lenition of c (written ch) to g implies the word is a direct borrowing from Latin.

Since the form *cocla, *coclys and kuligi are different (albeit related) words, they should be kept separate.

 

Nicholas

 

On 26 Du 2009, at 13:52, j.mills at email.com wrote:

 

 

Nance (1952) gives "cocla", "coclys" for English 'cockles'. George (2009) gives "koklys"

 

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