The more Breton I learn, the more connections I am finding with Welsh, and to some extent with French, in terms of vocabulary. Today’s lesson, for example, includes these words:<\/p>\n
– korn = cornel (corner)
\n– straed= stryd (street) – e korn ar straed = ar gornel y stryd (on the street corner)
\n– iliz = eglwys (church)
\n– marc’had-mat (‘good market’) = rhad (cheap) – looks like a calque translation from the French bonne-march\u00e9
\n– kig = cig (meat)
\n– kig yar (‘hen meat’) = cyw i\u00e2r (chicken)
\n– piz-bihan = pys (peas) – looks like a calque of petit-pois.
\n– tartezenn avalo\u00f9 = pastai afal (apple tart\/pie)
\n– enez = ynys (island)<\/p>\n
Yesterday we had deiz = dydd (day), beure = bore (morning), and noz = nos (night). The spelling and pronunciation disguises the related words, but once you get used to it, you can spot them more easily. It took me a while to realise that beure = bore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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