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Perhaps someone with a knowledge of Welsh could help here ?
Laghyades Posted: 03.09.2007, 02:45

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last visit: 26.09.08 		Because...I think...Kernow got paid a rather nice compliment the other day.

My brother and I were having lunch with some Welsh friends, and the conversation came round to the Welsh and Cornish languages.

Making some point about the languages, my brother asked them exactly how you say 'Cornish' in Welsh.

Now, at first, in replying to him, they used a word ... I can't write the Welsh spelling ... but it sounded similar to 'Kernewek'. But then, one of our friends said, there was another way of saying it, some phrase beginning with what sounded like 'brodor', the phrase meaning 'native of Cornwall'.

He then said, "Though rather than 'brodor', maybe that should be 'brodyr'".

I'd appreciate it if I could get a Welsh speaker to say if I understood that right....Did he basically say to my brother that, rather than being 'natives from Cornwall', our folk are 'brothers from Cornwall' ?

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Eddie-C Posted: 03.09.2007, 11:24

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last visit: 07.10.08 		There are two similar, but unrelated, words in Welsh:

brodor, pl. brodorion - native
(from W. 'bro', =Cornish 'bro', but C. doesn't seem to have a cognate to W. 'brodor')

brawd, pl. brodyr - brother
(cognate with C. 'broder', E. 'brother', nothing to do with 'bro')

So you could have phrases like:
brodor o Gernyw - a native of Cornwall
(ein) brodyr o Gernyw - (our) brothers from Cornwall

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Eddie-C Posted: 03.09.2007, 11:25

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last visit: 07.10.08 		There are two similar, but unrelated, words in Welsh:

brodor, pl. brodorion - native
(from W. 'bro', =Cornish 'bro', but C. doesn't seem to have a cognate to W. 'brodor')

brawd, pl. brodyr - brother
(cognate with C. 'broder', E. 'brother', nothing to do with 'bro')

So you could have phrases like:
brodor o Gernyw - a native of Cornwall
(ein) brodyr o Gernyw - (our) brothers from Cornwall

Hope this helps

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KS y'n Udn Form Screfys? -- Hep wow!

Kernewek Hengovek? -- Sur, nyns us nahen!
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