V Tree
A large V shaped pine tree on the Antony estate near Torpoint...
Seaton Beach
Located at the bottom of the Seaton River valley this sand and shingle beach is popular with families. At low tide it joins up with Downderry around the headland...
Seaton River
The Seaton River as it flows out of the valley and through the village of the same name...
Portwrinkle
Looking down over the one time fishing village of Portwrinkle. In the background is the start of Whitsand Bay as it stretches 4 miles down the Rame Peninsula...
We still have Greek and Latin words in English, somewhat altered, of course, but still recognizable. Welsh has Latin-source words if I am not mistaken. Why wouldn't Britanny still have Gaulish words a few centuries after the Romans left for their big Fall?
Perhaps it did. But no-one's positively identified them in Breton, partly because they would probably have been quite similar to existing Brythonic words anyway.
There are a few Gaulish loan-words in French, but surprisingly few. It's quite possible, however, that the French counting system has a Celtic sub-stratum, counting in 20s as it does after 60.
Are you sure that is not Latin and people think it is Gaulish, how much Gaulish is there to work on?, if someone looked at English today, they could also make the assumption that it evolved from Latin or French.
It must be remembered that Christianity bought many latin words to Welsh rather than the Romans
I remember someone saying at one of my classes that the Irish monks spoke Latin not Irish because they wrote in Latin.
The words are Celtic. The endings are not Latin, they are simply similar to Latin. Moreover, we do have some bilingual inscriptions - Gaulish and Latin.
Bottom line is we know Latin. The Gaulish inscriptions are not in Latin. The orthography is not Latin. The vocabulary is not Latin. The grammar is not Latin. But the vocabulary has cognates in insular Celtic and the grammar is similar to Latin. It is Celtic. For example, the word Nemetos, meaning a shrine, is related to the Irish deity Nemhedh. The words in the noun paradigms (which are all attested forms) are not Latin. It was the grammatical endings I was drawing attention to in terms of similarity. The Latin word for a son is filius, and mapos does not have a cognate in Latin. It does, however, in all the modern Celtic languages, including Cornish, in your very own Mebyon Kernow, for example.
How many and which loans into Insular Celtic came from the Romans and from the Church is debatable, although I find it hard to imagine that the Church brought in the word for a kitchen; rather more likely the Romans.
Quite a list, isn't it? Quite a few cognates (both Latin and Insular Celtic) missed out, unfortunately. Would be an interesting task to dig them all out.
KarlT, I trust you saw my response to the source of the verse? Are you able to find it? Or, do you perhaps already know that pennill? I could PM it, if you want. Hazel
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