[Spellyans] Learn Cornish
Ray Chubb
ray at spyrys.org
Tue Dec 2 19:58:53 GMT 2008
On 2 Kev 2008, at 16:43, nicholas williams wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-n7X53JCS4&feature=related
>
>
> In this video (spelt in KK) the word dohajydh is pronounced with the
> stress on the second syllable.
> I wonder whether this is correct.
> Lhuyd gives the word as <Dyhodzhedh> AB: 249a.
>
>
> We have a similar formation in
> dworennos PA 234c < *dyworth an nos 'after dark, after the night had
> fallen'
>
> I assume that dyhodzhedh and kyngys hanter dogha geyth PC 2912 both
> contain
> dohajedh < *dyworth hanter an jedh 'from the middle of the day,
> afternoon'.
> The expression at PC 2912 then means 'before halfway through the
> afternoon
> (literally 'after halfway through the day'; cf. afternoon, après
> midi, etc.)
>
> If the stress had been on the penultimate
> syllable, we should expect Lhuyd to have written *dyhadzhath. I am
> inclined
> to think that the word should be pronounced dohaJEDH [dOh@'dZe:D].
This is the way I have always pronounced it. I don't know why,
perhaps it was because we had an excellent tutor in Laurie Climo.
>
Ray Chubb
Portreth
Kernow
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