2026 Day 250
2026 Dedh Dew Cans ha Hanter Cans De Lün, seythves mis Gwedngala Monday, 7th September It is interesting to see how the development of words we use in Cornish can be traced in place names, and how Cornish was progressively replaced by English. This happened noticeably in the old hundreds of Caradon and North Cornwall, adjacent to England. Take the words a-bervedh, en bera, a-bera and bera , which we use for inside or inner : TRESPARRETT (Rospervet 1086) “middle/ inner roughland” = Rosperveth CUTPARRETT (Cut Pervet 1324) “middle/ inner wood” = Cuitpervet (OC) The Old Cornish hard p is still preserved in pervet middle (and t in cuit wood) TREBARWITH (Treberveth 1296) “middle/ inner farm” = Treberveth Meanwhile p was softening to b in MC berveth TREBARBER (Treberveth 1307) “middle/ inner farm” = Treberveth TREBARVAH (P’uthno) (Treberveth 1342) “middle/ inner farm” = Treberveth Another simple word that allows us to...