[Spellyans] "Tribe"

[Nicholas Williams]

<cor> ‘clan, tribe’, <kevammok>, ‘fight, battle/, <kevar>, ‘joint tillage’, <mujoven> ‘ridge.’ 

Yma O.J. Padel ow côwsel adro dhe oll a’n geryow-na in y lyver Cornish Place-name Elements (English Place-name Society, Nottingham 1985) ISBN 0 904889 114, i’n tyleryow-ma.

cor ‘clan, tribe, family, army (ha coscor, ?cor-lann) folen 64-65

kevammok ‘fight, battle’ folen 56

kevar ‘joint-tillage’ folen 56

mydzhovan ‘ridge’ (< Lhuyd AB: 74a avell gloss dhe iugum) folen 166.

Nicholas

> On 14 Feb 2020, at 14:06, Craig Weatherhill <craig at agantavas.org> wrote:
> 
> As I’ve always said, Dan, when looking the corpus of Cornish, never forget place-name evidence.  There are numerous words in those that do not appear in what texts remain to us.  Therefore, in my view, they should be regarded as textual evidence.
> 
> Do words like <kevammok>, “fight, battle”, <kevar>, “joint tillage>, <mujoven>, “ridge” appear in textual work?  I don’t think they do, but here they are in our place-names and field-names.  I can produce a whole list of them if required.
> 
> Craig

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