<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;">Indeed—but Lhuyd's deskadzher is itself his own invention, and is not supported by any writer of traditional Cornish. Lhuyd presumably thought that the OC Cornish agent suffix -adur would have assibilated. As a result he coined the word deskadzher. He also forgot (or perhaps had not learnt) that OC piscadur retained -d- in his own day. Moreover the very common word pehadur, pehador 'sinner' shows the same suffix without assibilation, as does the word sylwador. </span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">In fact we would not expect assibilation in the suffix -ador, because the adjacent /r/ prevent the assibilation of intervocalic /d/. Think of Peder, Pedyr 'St Peter', peder 'four (feminine)'. Notice also that the personal name Cador occurs twice in BK. It is also interesting that the OC pridit 'poet' appears in BK as prydyth, where the preceding /r/ has prevented assibilation. The word for 'teacher' is not attested in traditional Cornish, but if it were, it would no doubt be descader, not descager. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">There is a word related to puscador, namely the word for 'to fish', Lhuyd's pusgetsha. This does assibilate because there is no /r/ in the vicinity of the dental. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Nicholas</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> <br></span></font><div><div>On 18 May 2009, at 18:28, Daniel Prohaska wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Palatino Linotype"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; color: navy; ">I reckon he reconstructed it by way of analogy with UC<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">dyscajor</span></i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which must be from Lhuyd’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">deskadzher</span></i>. I, too, can only find forms of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">pyscador</span></i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with <d> not with *<i><span style="font-style: italic; ">j</span></i>, *<i><span style="font-style: italic; ">g</span></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or *<i><span style="font-style: italic; ">dzh</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>