...and fishes like shiny
@andsome.bsky.social
Twitter/X escapee, evacuee, refugee but I'll give you fish ...I'll give you candy.
Comparative chart of the personal forms of the inflected preposition:
#Kernewek: aragenn displetys (???) "GANS"
#Cymraeg: arddodiad rhediadol "GAN"
#Brezhoneg: araogenn blegadek "GANT"
with English (WITH/BY) and #French (AVEC) translations:
#Cornish
#Breton
#Welsh
#Français
#langsky
#Kernewek: aragenn displetys (???) "GANS"
#Cymraeg: arddodiad rhediadol "GAN"
#Brezhoneg: araogenn blegadek "GANT"
with English (WITH/BY) and #French (AVEC) translations:
#Cornish
#Breton
#Welsh
#Français
#langsky
October 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is what Wikipedia says which is attributed to Charles, B. G. (1938). Non-Celtic Placenames in Wales. London Medieval Studies Monographs, 1. p. xlvi.
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is what Wikipedia says which is attributed to Charles, B. G. (1938). Non-Celtic Placenames in Wales. London Medieval Studies Monographs, 1. p. xlvi.
Leading on from a conversation about puffballs and a lack of a word for them in #Kernewek, I made this list while searching the internet for any #Cornish puffball referrences but there were none I could find. #Breton names for puffballs are evident but still lacking.
#langsky #Brezhoneg #Cymraeg
#langsky #Brezhoneg #Cymraeg
October 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Comparative wordlist from an old Cornish language vocabulary clipping I've kept and now extended to include connected words in the related Brythonic #Celtic languages as well as French and English.
#Cymraeg #Welsh
#Kernewek #Cornish
#Brezhoneg #Breton
#Français #French
#langsky
#Cymraeg #Welsh
#Kernewek #Cornish
#Brezhoneg #Breton
#Français #French
#langsky
September 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Nance spelt the #Cornish word ("solem") "solempn" reflecting Middle English "solempne" and Old French "solempne" ("solemn")
• solem = "solemn" adj.
• solempnita = "solemnity", "ceremomy"
• solempnya = "celebrate" vb.
• solempnyans = "celebration"
• solempnyel = "ceremonial" adj.
#Kernewek
#langsky
• solem = "solemn" adj.
• solempnita = "solemnity", "ceremomy"
• solempnya = "celebrate" vb.
• solempnyans = "celebration"
• solempnyel = "ceremonial" adj.
#Kernewek
#langsky
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Comparative wordlist from an old Cornish language vocabulary clipping I've kept and now extended to include connected words in the related Brythonic #Celtic languages as well as French and English.
#Cymraeg #Welsh
#Kernewek #Cornish
#Brezhoneg #Breton
#Français #French
#langsky
#Cymraeg #Welsh
#Kernewek #Cornish
#Brezhoneg #Breton
#Français #French
#langsky
September 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Was asking AI about #Esperanto affixes and it responded back at me:
"A classic example often cited is gekuniklidetaĉoj".
For one, this word doesn't exist so I doubt it's "a classic example often cited"? So I asked AI to create some more Esperanto words for me, this is what it came up with.
#langsky
"A classic example often cited is gekuniklidetaĉoj".
For one, this word doesn't exist so I doubt it's "a classic example often cited"? So I asked AI to create some more Esperanto words for me, this is what it came up with.
#langsky
September 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Was asking AI about #Esperanto affixes and it responded back at me:
"A classic example often cited is gekuniklidetaĉoj".
For one, this word doesn't exist so I doubt it's "a classic example often cited"? So I asked AI to create some more Esperanto words for me, this is what it came up with.
#langsky
"A classic example often cited is gekuniklidetaĉoj".
For one, this word doesn't exist so I doubt it's "a classic example often cited"? So I asked AI to create some more Esperanto words for me, this is what it came up with.
#langsky
I'd guess #Cornish: 'myll' ("poppy") is cognate with the older/dialect #Welsh: word ("millyn") for the plant 'violet' ( #Kernewek: melion n.coll "violet"). These words probably have a connection with the words for "clover":
#Kernewek: mellyonen
#Cymraeg: meillionen
#Brezhoneg: melchon
#langsky
#Kernewek: mellyonen
#Cymraeg: meillionen
#Brezhoneg: melchon
#langsky
September 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Going back to the 'visiting places on the map...' part of the original post, you're much more limited regarding Welsh placenames with the element 'cytir/cyttir' than the more widespread 'coed'. Most of the 'cytir/cyttir' places are in Caergybi and Ynys Môn.
August 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Going back to the 'visiting places on the map...' part of the original post, you're much more limited regarding Welsh placenames with the element 'cytir/cyttir' than the more widespread 'coed'. Most of the 'cytir/cyttir' places are in Caergybi and Ynys Môn.
I'm uncertain what the corresponding #Breton verb 'ober' paradigm is when forming questions in the past tense?
The #Welsh interrogative particle ("a") is hidden triggering soft mutation of the verb the same construction as the #Cornish ("a").
#langsky
#Brezhoneg
#Kernewek
#Cymraeg
The #Welsh interrogative particle ("a") is hidden triggering soft mutation of the verb the same construction as the #Cornish ("a").
#langsky
#Brezhoneg
#Kernewek
#Cymraeg
July 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Some fossilised forms kept in #Kernewek from Old English are:
amari > armoire - French and old word in English for a cupboard.
hansel > Old Eng 'handselen' "given into the hand" has an archaic sense of a first meal ie. "breakfast" although #Cornish does has an equivalent to #Breton "lein".
#langsky
amari > armoire - French and old word in English for a cupboard.
hansel > Old Eng 'handselen' "given into the hand" has an archaic sense of a first meal ie. "breakfast" although #Cornish does has an equivalent to #Breton "lein".
#langsky
July 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I thought I'd finally use these clippings from old #Cornish publications I kept back in the mid-90s which I've had kicking around for years. Notice how #Kernewek has preserved 'spisti' ("spice-house") a dated English term for greengrocer's, akin to modern French 'épicerie' meaning the same.
#langsky
#langsky
June 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
June 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Dim ond un enghraifft o'r gair 'ma dw i wedi'i gweld ar wefan, ond dw i'n meddwl fy mod i wedi dŵad ar draws tautoleg Gernyweg?
I think I've found a #Cornish tautology?
#Kernewek: hwegys hweg ("corn melys" / "sweet corn")
hweg - sweet
ys - corn
hweg -sweet
"sweet corn sweet"
#Cymraeg
#langsky
I think I've found a #Cornish tautology?
#Kernewek: hwegys hweg ("corn melys" / "sweet corn")
hweg - sweet
ys - corn
hweg -sweet
"sweet corn sweet"
#Cymraeg
#langsky
June 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Dunno if there exists other regional versions of the ALDI supermarket shopping bags around the UK to match the ones in Wales like this one but I mocked up a #Cornish flag one.
June 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Dunno if there exists other regional versions of the ALDI supermarket shopping bags around the UK to match the ones in Wales like this one but I mocked up a #Cornish flag one.
I've probably got the same ones just with older covers.
June 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've probably got the same ones just with older covers.
Roeddwn i'n arfer ymweld â Chernyw lawer pan oedd gen i deulu'n dal i fyw yno ym Mhorth Ia (St Ives) ac roeddwn i'n arfer casglu'r cardiau post twristaidd 'ma.
I used to visit #Cornwall a lot when I still had family living there in St Ives and I used to collect these tourist post cards.
#langsky
I used to visit #Cornwall a lot when I still had family living there in St Ives and I used to collect these tourist post cards.
#langsky
June 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
