Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
That is purely a matter of opinion. For some people and some purposes one is consistent with the genius of the language, while the other stands out as foreign. As to which is which and in what contexts, well that as I've said comes down to personal taste.
Given that most of Revived Cornish is reconstructed, we have to ensure that the reconstruction is the best we can attain, consistent with the usual rules and procedures of comparative and historical linguistics and phonology, and based on logical reasoning from plausible assumptions. Rather than on a mess of far-fetched premises, very dodgy logic (rhetoric mostly) and circular arguments from selective instances. The latter is the true conlang (indeed many conlangers could and do do a lot better!) and that is what will discredit Cornish in the eyes of academia if it's allowed to continue.
In any case, even if French 'fruit' had been borrowed into OC it would have gone on to give something like MC *froez or *froes, probably spelled *<fro(y)s>. It could not have given the attested MC <frut>. So we would have to have TWO borrowings from French, once back before OC and again (more likely) directly into MC. Since we know that the Latin word passed into British and that the form it would have taken in OC would be written <fruit(h)> that is clearly the simplest and most probable explanation. Why do certain parties love to make things more complicated than they need be?
English has a perfectly servicable word "yearly", so we should ban "annual" or perhaps the other way round if you're a classicist. That is the thrust of Panini's argument.
Seventy Percent of "competent & frequent" Cornish users prefer to write KK! (MAGA/CLP Survey)
An interesting article on a similar problem with Welsh dictionaries (at least until quite recently), much of this is relevent to Cornish, lets learn from others' mistakes.
Don't recall that "annual" featured much in Anglo-saxon. But what about all the made-up 'ink-horn' words? When a zoologist talks about "cephalisation" or a chemist about a "chelating agent" they are using pseudo-Greek words, contrived to look as though they had been borrowed from Ancient Greek to Classical Latin and thence passed through French into English. All of which is clearly total fiction.
Morvran is right. All evidence should be carefully examined not just taken on face value. The textual material has to be approached by viewing it in the total context, especially since the origins of much of it is unknown.
Morvran is right, on the whole. As between frut, frutys, fruyth/froeth, and the more recent froethenn, there is obviously scope for a measure of semantic refinement. However, before we make any recommendations we must make a very careful examination of the use of these various items in Recent Modern Cornish. We desperately need a comprehensive corpus on which to work. While I (like many of us) have fairly clear impressions of how some areas of the vocabulary have developed over the past century or so, I'd feel much happier with more precise data.
We'll have to agree to disagree here. I'm less persuaded than ever that this is either meaningful or relevant.
Tramezzini has clearly fallen victim to our old friend the category mistake. He's airing hypotheses about early mediaeval etymology to people who are discussing modern usage. "Trist iawn, very sad.", as they say in Bryncoch.
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