[Spellyans] emendations to the SWF

[Jon Mills]

Ordinalia: buth; buthes; buthy; buthys; vuthys 
Ton (1504): buthys 
Jordan (1611): bethy, bethys, buthy, vethy
Lhuyd (1707): bidhis; Bidhyz
Jon


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
> To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans at kernowek.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spellyans] emendations to the SWF
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:49:22 +0000
> 
> 
> On 11 Dec 2008, at 14:55, nicholas williams wrote:
> 
> > But
> >
> > oll an beise a vt bethys CW 2315
> > ow der bethy a vynta CW 2441
> >
> > with <e> suggest that there was a variant in /ø/~/e/.
> >
> > <buthy, buthys> is the commonest spelling. The question is 
> > whether  <u> means /y/ or /ø/.
> > I suspect we had /ø/ in monosyllables (ny's buth dour certan 
> > neffre  OM 1692) but /y ~i/ before
> > a following /i/, cf. eus/usy, Late Cornish es but igge.
> 
> Then this could be a alternation. beudh, budhys?
> 
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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Dr. Jon Mills,
School of European Culture and Languages,
University of Kent


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