This episode contains Lesson 17 of the Cornish language audio-course “Desky Kernôwek Bew - Learning Colloquial Cornish”.
Descas Seytek 17 Lesson Seventeen
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Geryow - Words:
bia {vb.3sg.cnd. < bos“to be/being”} - (it/she/he) would be.
tra veth (+ neg.) - nothing; anything.
gorowgh, goro whei (vb.2pl.pres. < goffos, godhvos “to know/knowing”) - you know (how to).
goren, gora nei (vb.2pl.pres. < goffos, godhvos “to know/knowing”) - we know (how to).
etto {3sg.m.prp.prn.} - in it; in him.
nâ {adv.} - no.
Lavarow - Phrases:
Na orama pandra via. - I don’t know what it is.
Na ora vy fatla! - I don’t know how!
Patrons - Structures:
pandra via - what it would be, what it is.
piw a via - who it would be, who it is.
(w)oro whei? - Do you know?
my a (w)or - I know.
whei a (w)or - you know.
nei a (w)or - we know.
na (w)oro whei - you don’t know.
na (w)ora nei - we don’t know.
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