<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I notice that Neil gives in his gerlevran:</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><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">valley(n): (usu) rôsh (Lh,WG) var rôz (WG cv PN rose)-ow; (Biblical or major) vali(m)-s, e.g. en Vali</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Ebron, deveri (WJ); (arch) nans(m)pl nanjow</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">He considers vali to be a major or biblical valley and nans to be archaic.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Nicholas</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; "><b><br></b></div></div><div><div><div>On 28 Jul 2008, at 11:38, Jon Mills wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>In PA we find</div> <div>"In erna zen menyzyow<br>why a ergh warnough coze<br>yn ketella an nanssow<br>wy a bys ragas cuthe".</div> <div>Jon<br><br></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">----- Original Message -----<br>From: "nicholas williams" <njawilliams@gmail.com><br>To: "Standard Cornish discussion list" <spellyans@kernowek.net><br>Subject: Re: [Spellyans] <y>, <i>, etc<br>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:49:10 +0100<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">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.</span></font> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">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.</span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">....</span></font></div> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"> <div style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><br></span></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Baskerville"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Nicholas</span></font></div></span></font></div></div> <div><br></div> <div>_____________________________________<br>Dr. Jon Mills,<br>School of European Culture and Languages,<br>University of Kent<br></div></i></y></spellyans@kernowek.net></njawilliams@gmail.com></blockquote><i></i><br> -- <div> Be Yourself @ mail.com!<br> Choose From 200+ Email Addresses<br> Get a <b>Free</b> Account at <a href="http://www.mail.com/Product.aspx" target="_blank">www.mail.com</a>!</div> _______________________________________________<br>Spellyans mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Spellyans@kernowek.net">Spellyans@kernowek.net</a><br>http://kernowek.net/mailman/listinfo/spellyans_kernowek.net<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>