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<div>It's un-italicised 'jazz' in UCR, of course. If we were to have KS *jaz, then I think we'd have to have *jazek rather than ?*jasek, lest people attempt a spurious back-formation:</div><div><br></div><div>tasek < tas</div><div>gwlasek < gwlas</div><div>tewasek < tewas</div><div>lagasek < lagas</div><div>etc.</div><div>So, quite natural to think:</div><div>?*jasek < *jas</div><div><br></div><div>Whereas, jazek<jaz is not prone to this error.</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, KS *jas might lead to some unfortunate misconstruals:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>jaspys = a piece of jazz (rather than 'jasper')</div><div><br></div><div>jasmyn = a jazz kid (rather than the fragrant flower)</div></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lefanjas = the voice of jazz (instead of a plurality of frogs)</blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div><div>Then there'd be the jazziest book in the New Testament: 'Pystyl Jamys', which is abbreviated to UCR 'Jas.'</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Finally, it's always OK to use an italicised loan-word with the original spelling (within the bounds of good style, at least).<br><div><br></div>So, fwiw, my money's on jaz/<i>jazz/</i>jazek.<br><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: SlimbachITC; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Eddie Foirbeis Climo</div><div>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</div></span></span></span></span></span> </div><br><div><div>On 5 Jul 2008, at 12:43, nicholas williams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Jaz.</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Tasek 'spiritual father' occurs in BM and Casak 'St Cadoc' in BK.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Casek, casak 'mare' is also well attested. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Jasek would be in good company.</span></font></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div>On 5 Jul 2008, at 11:50, Michael Everson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>How shall we spell this? Welsh has unassimilated <jazz> and <br>assimilated <jas> with <jasaidd> 'jazzy'.<br><br>In Cornish, unassimilated <jazz> is of course possible, but would be <br>properly italicized in print as a loanword. As an assimilated word =, <br><jaz> and <jas> would be pronuounced identically, rhyming with <tas> <br>'father'. An adjective <jazek> or <jasek> might be derived for <br>'jazzy'.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>