How do you say dog in Cornish?

Breton = ki (ee) for dog. How is that pronounced??
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What does Bal mean in Cornish?

Bal - a mine (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language, related to palas, meaning 'to dig')
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What does Chy mean in Cornish?

chy m (plural treven or chiow) (Standard Cornish) house.
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What does BOS mean in Cornish?

Bos/Bod in Bodmin, Bosigran, Boscawen meaning home or dwelling.
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What is Cornish Wolf?

wolf - animal. bleydh masculine noun bleydhes plural.
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Cornish Language Beginners



What is the Cornish word for cat?

Hendra: Place name, "old farm" Kanel: Cinnamon. Kath: Cat. Kathik: Kitten.
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What does Ruan mean in Cornish?

Ruan (m) saint who gave his name to several. places on the Lizard. Rudhek (m) Cornish equivalent of Robin.
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What does goon mean in Cornish?

goon means meadow in Cornish.
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What does meor mean in Cornish?

names representing softening of the M of mur (pronounced meor), large, and the B of byghan (pronounced bean), small, after the feminine noun tre, farm. The adjective hen, old, is exceptional in that it precedes the noun; thus Hendra (the commonest Cornish farm-name) means “old farm”, dra representing tre.
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What does Tren mean in Cornish?

In Cornish Tre means a homestead and there seemed to be plenty of those dotted in the fields around the farm shop site from Trekenner, Treburley & Trebullet, Pol means a pond lake or well.
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What does GWEL mean in Cornish?

Noun. gwel f (singulative gwelen) rods, sticks.
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What does praze mean in Cornish?

Praze an Beeble (Cornish: Pras an Bibel), sometimes shortened to Praze, is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It lies between the nearby towns of Camborne (2.5 miles) and Helston (7 miles) in the civil parish of Crowan. The name Praze an Beeble was first recorded in 1697 and means the meadow of the pipe/conduit.
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What does Kew mean in Cornish?

kew = enclosure, close, field.
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What does PARD mean in Cornish?

Translation: Friend. A term of endearment used for friends and colleagues, often used in conjunction with Right On! Me 'ansum.
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What do the Cornish call holidaymakers?

Emmet (alt. spellings emmit or emit) is a word for the Cornish dialect of English that is used to refer to tourists or holiday makers coming to Cornwall.
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What does Hayle mean in Cornish?

Hayle (Cornish: Heyl, lit. "estuary") is a port town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England.
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What did the Vikings call Cornwall?

“Dumnonia” was the Latin name for the region and Cornweal (which became Cornwall) is the name by which the Anglo-Saxons called them. At least until the mid-8th century, the rulers of Dumnonia were probably also the rulers of what we now think of as Cornwall.
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What does Kenza mean in Cornish?

Kensa / Kenza (KEN-za) – A name derived from the Cornish vocabulary word for “first”.
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What is a Cornish dog?

Breton = ki (ee) for dog.
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Is Cornish still spoken?

Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. It is a revived language, having become extinct as a living community language in Cornwall at the end of the 18th century.
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How do you say star in Cornish?

Steren (STE-rən) — A modern Cornish vocabulary name meaning "star."
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