Episode 64: Desky Kernôwek Bew - Learning Colloquial Cornish: 18a Descas Etek - Lesson 18

April 20
38 mins

Episode Description

This episode contains Lesson 18 of the Cornish language audio-course “Desky Kernôwek Bew - Learning Colloquial Cornish”. 


Descas Etek             18            Lesson Eighteen

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Geryow - Words

a {prp.} - of, from. 

Austol {plc.nm.} - St Austell. 

beu {vb.3sg.perf. < bos“to be/being”} - he/she/(it) has been. 

bewgh, bewgh whei {vb.2pl.pret. bos ‘to be/being’} - (occurrance in the past over and done with) you have been; you were. 

ena {adv.} - there. 

en {prp.}, yn - in. 

eur {f.sg.n.} - hour. 

genys {vb.adj. < gana ‘to give birth/giving birth’} - born. 

Kernow - Cornwall.

ma {dem.adj.} - this, these. 

pe le, ple {interrog.adv.} - where?; (which place?).

Pensans - Penzance. 

Porth Enys- Mousehole. 

trigys {vb.adj.} - stayed, settled, put up. 


Lavarow - Phrases

e’n eur ma - these days; at present. 

Pe le ero whei? - Where are you? 

Pe le ero whei o mos? - Where are you going? 

Pe le ero whei o tos? - Where do you come from? Where are you from? 

Pe le ero whei trigys e’n eur ma? - Where do you live at present? 

Pe le vewgh whei genys? - Where were you born? 


Patrons - Structures

my a veu - I have been; I was. 

vewgh whei? - have you been?, where you? 

na vadna vy - I won’t, I will not, I don’t want to. 

ello whei? - can you?

fatel ello whei gwil hedna - how to do that (lit.: how can you doing that). 

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