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	Kernewek in Cornish English
nxylas	Posted: 28.11.2004, 16:43
registered: Aug. 2004 Posts: 346 Status: offline last visit: 09.10.07	I know about the Cornish language, and I know Cornwall has its own dialect of English, but I was wondering to what extent the former had influenced the latter. Have any studies been carried out on the survival of Cornish vocabulary as dialect words in English?


Kate	Posted: 30.11.2004, 21:47
registered: Aug. 2004 Posts: 196 Status: offline last visit: 26.11.08	I can think of many that my family used. My gran always called ants muryhans - Cornish for ants (although I'm sure all my spellings here will be wrong). My father alway used the word stank for walk, heavehall for a fork, fitcher for a ferret and also whicnick. Whisht for something that was poor - these are words that I have never come across in the rest of Britain.


Diane	Posted: 30.11.2004, 22:52
registered: Aug. 2004 Posts: 789 Status: offline last visit: 21.08.07	"Kate"I can think of many that my family used. My gran always called ants muryhans - Cornish for ants (although I'm sure all my spellings here will be wrong). My father alway used the word stank for walk, heavehall for a fork, fitcher for a ferret and also whicnick. Whisht for something that was poor - these are words that I have never come across in the rest of Britain. Yes my mum called ants, muryans she also used the word whitnick as in " screeching like a whitnick. I didn't even think that the word muryans could be Cornish. as a child, there's was never any talk of anyone using the Cornish language.I'll have a think, as mum and granny used many strange sayings.


Kattell	Posted: 11.01.2005, 12:54
registered: Jan. 2005 Posts: 259 Status: offline last visit: 20.04.07	The word "moryon" is Cornish for ant. There are many words that must have been passed down the centuries in families that derive from Cornish for example "stank" means heavy footfall, "heller" is a wild natured individual (she's a heller) and the very common word "Teasy" I think comes from the Cornish word "tesek" which means irritable. I'm sure there are loads more, I'll have a think.


Mike	Posted: 17.01.2005, 11:26
registered: Jul. 2004 Posts: 2692 Status: offline last visit: 30.11.08	Zawn from Sawen - cleft in cliff Buzza from Bussa - large pot Bulhorn for snail


Sterenn	Posted: 14.04.2005, 11:50
registered: Apr. 2005 Posts: 15 Status: offline last visit: 03.01.08	Quilkin for frog Kernewek = kwilkin Padgy-paw for lizard = peswar paw Skat (meaning hit or beat) The American expression 'mosey' may even be from the Cornish 'mos' meaning to go. It could have gone to America and back again. I know it is also used in west Cornwall


chris	Posted: 14.04.2005, 12:30
registered: Jul. 2004 Posts: 1405 Status: offline last visit: 01.08.08	Isn't emmet an ant aswell - why so many words for ants? It's like eskimos and snow!


Ian	Posted: 28.05.2005, 01:24
registered: May. 2005 Posts: 334 Status: offline last visit: 28.11.08	Never heard of emmets when growing up down west in the early 50's - always called them muryans (or murlyans). We also played with cok an babas [I think I called them cork an barbers ]. The Breton fishing boats that came in my grandfather called "frenchy caboose" (don't know where the "caboose" bit comes from). These days I would probably pick him up on the the use of "frenchy". He would also use the word "why" in sentences such as "woss wrong why?" ("why" rhyming with eye) not "wos wrong with ee?" The west Cornwall eccent had more of a southern Irish sound to it and certainly very different from a "west country" sound but you're hardly likely to hear that now.


Diane	Posted: 28.05.2005, 03:21
registered: Aug. 2004 Posts: 789 Status: offline last visit: 21.08.07	We used to call ants, muryans too. If I was naughty mum you say "you turk" don't think that would go down well these days. If we were dressed up she'd say" you look like a geeze dancer" granny had loads of old sayings too, I'll have to try to remember some of them. I've got granny on cassette, it was recorded on reel to reel back in the 60s, [she was in her 80 at the time] and had no idea that it was her speaking. it's since been put onto a CD, and is very difficult to understand as her accent was so different from today. it's a prized possession of the family


lyskerrys	Posted: 06.07.2005, 14:41
registered: Apr. 2005 Posts: 928 Status: offline last visit: 17.02.07	chris_l, yes emmet means ant - but it's from anglo-saxon!

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