[Spellyans] cledh etc

[Craig Weatherhill]

In my own view, there's no call for -eu- in this word (SWF, KK), other than the fact that Breton has <kleuz> (Welsh has <clawdd>).  There's not much sign of it before the Late Cornish period.

It's <cleath> in CW and <kledh> in Lhuyd.  There is just one -eu- in place-name spellings - the Bolster Bank, St Agnes was Cleuth 1602, Cleath, Clay 1733; Kleth 1740; Cleath, Kleth 1778.

It also occurs in the compounds  mengleth "quarry"; and mongleth, "open-cast mine".

Craig




On 2013 Gen 11, at 22:45, Janice Lobb wrote:

> Dick has  clêdh for a ditch, dyke, trench, cutting, drain and meangledh for quarry
> 
> whereas SWF has mengleudh for quarry
> 
> and dowrgleudh for canal
> 
> Dick has ancledhi for to bury, to inter,
> 
> cledhez for buried, “ditched”
> 
> ancladhvah for burial place, cemetery
> 
> ancledhiaz for interment
> 
> while SWF has ynkleudhyas for to bury
> 
> ynkladhva for cemetery, graveyard
> 
> ynkleudhyans for burial, funeral
> 
> I prefer the look of Dick’s,  
> 
> but Q1 is the –eu- vowel justified in SWF?
> 
> and Q2 is there any connection with sword cledha/kledha?
> 
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