Cornish word for Wolf?

[Dave Robinson]

Could someone help me out with the cornish word for "wolf"? Please reply by
mail and include phonetic pronunciation. Thanks.

[Andrew R Climo-Thompson]

In article <daver-010...@daver.tap.net>, Dave Robinson
<da...@mail.north.net> writes

>Could someone help me out with the cornish word for "wolf"? Please reply by
>mail and include phonetic pronunciation. Thanks.

Blyth - Bleeth or Ble-ith

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Andrew R Climo-Thompson
Cornish Language Advisory Service
Web sites at www.deansoft.com/clas and www.ex.ac.uk/~ajbeer/clas

[Leslie Sitek]

Perhaps it's intersting to add that there are two words for wolf (I use
the new spelling in Common Cornish/Kernewek Kemmyn):

bleydh - wolf
bleydhes - she-wolf

pronounciation:
b - as b in English bit, tuba, cube
l - a clear l, as l in English late
ey - similar to ei in English veil, but with a closer first element
dh - as th in English thither, breathe
e - as e in English bet
s - half-voiced to sound half-way between s as in sat and z

From: Gerliver Kernewek Kemmyn/An Gerlyver Meur, by Dr Ken George,
published by The Cornish Language Board, 1993.

BTW, when I was Cornwall, I heard that Captain Bligh of (the Mutiny of)
the Bounty was born in Devon but had Cornish parents and that his name
is derived from the Cornish "bleydh" - "wolf".

Leslie Sitek

[Neville Meek]

In message <daver-010...@daver.tap.net> Dave Robinson wrote:

> Could someone help me out with the cornish word for "wolf"? Please reply by
> mail and include phonetic pronunciation. Thanks.

According to my dictionary the cornish word for wolf is "blyth", but I
wouldn't know how to pronounce it.

Nev Meek
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