Cornish Dictionary

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Agan steus nowydh yw skrifys yn Furv Skrifys Savonek – FSS, usys lemmyn yn bewnans poblek hag yn skolyow. An steus yw kavadow ynwedh yn Kernewek Kemmyn – KK. Cornish is a Celtic language and a member of the Brythonic or Brittonic branch of the Insular Celtic language family, along with Welsh and Breton. It was spoken as a community language in Cornwall until the late 18th century, and a few people continued to speak it into the 19th century. Efforts to revive the language began in the early 20th century [ see below]. Us two / We two – As in 'there are just we two'; "Us two" is used only in north east Cornwall and "we two" in the rest of Cornwall. [110]

Broze – a blaze, a great heat (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language bros, meaning 'extremely hot') [4] Upton, Clive; Widdowson, J. D. A. (1996). An Atlas of English Dialects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-0-19-869274-4.Les données de la toponymie du Devon en fonction de l'émigration bretonne en Armorique, in Annales de Bretagne (1952) Parwhobble – a conference (as a noun); to talk continuously so as to dominate the conversation (as a verb) [77]

Buster – someone full of fun and mischief. (Originally a variant of "burster", but later influenced (and reanalysed) separately by/as "bust" + -er. The combining form of the term has appeared from the early 20th century but been especially prolific since the 1940s, owing to its appearance as military slang). Upton, Clive; Widdowson, J. D. A. (1996). An Atlas of English Dialects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 72–73. ISBN 978-0-19-869274-4. Holing – working, mining (from Cornish language hwel, meaning 'a mine working') used in phrase "holing in guag", meaning mining somewhere that has already been mined. Jupp, James (2001), The Australian People: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people, and their origins (2nded.), Cambridge University Press, p.229, ISBN 978-0-521-80789-0

Pronunciation (Standard Written Form)

So, if you fancy learning how to say ‘hello’, ‘happy birthday’ and ‘how’s it going my beauties?’ in Cornish, make sure you watch the video below. Cornish toponymy from the 17 th century to the present day, in Annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the history of linguistic ideas (2016)