[Spellyans] 'Valley' in Cornish

[Jon Mills]

Lhuyd (AB: 4c)  includes "†Nans, A Valley" amongst a list of words in the
Vocabularium Cornicum "which are now disus'd by the Cornish, but still
understood by the Welsh." Jon

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "nicholas williams"
  To: "Standard Cornish discussion list"
  Subject: Re: [Spellyans] 'Valley' in Cornish
  Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:32:14 +0100

  I notice that Neil gives in his gerlevran:
  valley(n): (usu) rôsh (Lh,WG) var rôz (WG cv PN rose)-ow; (Biblical
  or major) vali(m)-s, e.g. en ValiEbron, deveri (WJ); (arch) nans(m)pl
  nanjow
  He considers vali to be a major or biblical valley and nans to be
  archaic.
  Nicholas
  On 28 Jul 2008, at 11:38, Jon Mills wrote:

    In PA we find"In erna zen menyzyow
    why a ergh warnough coze
    yn ketella an nanssow
    wy a bys ragas cuthe".Jon

      ----- Original Message -----
      From: "nicholas williams"
      To: "Standard Cornish discussion list"
      Subject: Re: [Spellyans] , , etc
      Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:49:10 +0100

      Apart from the toponym Valy Ebron there are, as far as I am
      aware, no examples in the texts of valy 'valley'. There are
      no examples of nans 'valley' in the texts either.Since the
      author of CW wrote Valy Ebron for the new toponym Valy of
      Hebron, it seems to me (without further evidence) that his
      ordinary word for 'valley' was valy.....
      Nicholas
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      School of European Culture and Languages,
      University of Kent


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