APPENDIX
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THE DAYS, MONTHS, AND SEASONS IN CORNISH
§ 1. The Days of the Week, Dedhyow an Seithan.
Sunday Dê Zîl.
Monday Dê Lín.
Tuesday Dê Mergh.
Wednesday Dê Marhar.
Thursday Dê Yew.
Friday Dê Gwener.
Saturday Dê Sadarn.
It will be seen that, like the Welsh and Bretons as well as the Latin nations, the Cornish derived the names of the days directly from Latin, and did not, like the Teutonic nations, translate them in accordance with primitive ideas of comparative mythology.
§ 2. The Months of the Year, Mîsyow an Vledhan.
January Mîs Genver.
February Mîs Whevral.
March Mîs Mergh.
April Mîs Ebral.
May Mîs Mê.
June Mîs Efan.
July Mîs Gorefan.
August Mîs Êst.
September Mîs Gwengala.
October Mîs Hedra.
November Mîs Deu.
December Mîs Kevardheu.
§ 3. The Four Seasons of the Year, Pajer Termen an Vledhan.
Spring Gwainten.
Summer Hav.
Autumn Kidniav.
Winter Gwav.
§ 4. Festivals and Holy Days, Dêdh Goilyow ha Dedhyow Sans.
Christmas Nadelik.
New Year’s Day Bledhan Nowedh.
Epiphany / Twelfth Day Degl an Stêl / An Dawdhegvas Dêdh.
Easter Pask.
Low Sunday Pask Bîan.
Ascension Day An Askenyans.
Whitsunday / Pentecost Zîlgwidn / Pencast.
Palm Sunday Dê Zîl Blejyow.
Ash Wednesday Dê Marhar an Losow.
Maundy Thursday Dê Yew Hamblys.
Good Friday Dê Gwener an Grows.
Holy Week Seithan Sans / Seithan Mêr.
Purification / Candlemas Degl Marîa an Golow.
Annunciation / Lady Day Degl agan Arledhes / Degl Marîa en Mîs Mergh.
Visitation Degl Marîa en Gorefan.
Assumption Degl Marîa en Hanter-Êst / Ewhelyans Marîa.
Nativity of B.V.M Genesegeth Marîa.
Midsummer Day / Nativity of St. John Golowan (i.e. The Lights or Midsummer Fires) / Genesegeth Jûan Bejedhyor.
Lammas Day / Harvest Home Degoledh ŷs (pron. dêgŭldŷz meaning, “Corn Feast”).
All Saints Day Halan Gwav (i.e. the Kalends of Winter).
All Souls Day Dêdh an Enevow.
Ember Days An Pajer Termen.
Whit Monday Dê Lîn Pencast.
Trinity Sunday Dê Zîl an Drinjes.
Corpus Christi Day Degl Corf Crîst.
Michaelmas Day Degl Sans Myhal hag ŏl an Eleth.
LIST OF SOME MODERN BOOKS AND ARTICLES RELATING TO CORNISH
1. The Ancient Cornish Drama. Edited and translated by Mr. Edwin Norris. Oxford, University Press, 1859. 2 vols. 8vo. [This contains the Trilogy known as the Ordinalia (see p. 27), followed by notes and a most valuable “Sketch of Cornish Grammar,” and the Cottonian Vocabulary, arranged alphabetically].
2. Pascon agan Arluth: the Poem of the Passion (see p. 26). [With a translation and notes by Dr. Whitley Stokes.] Philological Society’s Transactions, 1860-1. 8vo.
3. Gwreans an Bys: the Creation of the World, a Cornish Mystery. Edited, with a translation and notes, by Whitley Stokes. Philological Society’s Transactions, 1864. 8vo.
4. Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: a Dictionary of the ancient Celtic language of Cornwall, in which the words are elucidated by copious examples from the Cornish works now remaining; with translations in English. The synonyms are also given in the cognate dialects of Welsh, Armoric, Irish, Gaelic, and Manx, showing at one view the connection between them. By the Rev. Robert Williams. Roderic, Llandovery, 1865. 4to.
5. A Collection of hitherto unpublished Proverbs and Rhymes in the ancient Cornish Language: from the MSS. of Dr. Borlase. By William Copeland Borlase. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1866. 8vo.
6. A Cornish Glossary. By Whitley Stokes. [Additions of about 2000 words to Williams’s Lexicon, with some corrections]. Transactions of the Philological Society, 1868-9.
7. Beunans Meriasek: the Life of St. Meriasek, Bishop and Confessor. A Cornish Drama. Edited, with a translation and notes, by Whitley Stokes. Trübner & Co., London, 1872. 8vo.
8. The Cornish Language. A Paper read before the Philological Society, March 21st, 1873. By Henry Jenner. Philological Society’s Transactions, 1893.
9. Traditional Relics of the Cornish Language in Mount’s Bay in 1875. By Henry Jenner. Philological Society’s Transactions, 1876. 8vo.
10. The History and Literature of the Ancient Cornish Language. By Henry Jenner. A Paper read before the British Archæological Association at Penzance, August 19th, 1876. British Archæological Journal, 1877. 8vo.
11. Copy of a MS. in Cornish and English from the MSS. of Dr. Borlase. Nebbaz Gerriau dro tho Carnoack. By John Boson. Edited by W. C. Borlase. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Nov. 1879. 8vo.
12. An English-Cornish Dictionary. Compiled from the best sources. By Fred. W. P. Jago. Luke, Plymouth; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London, 1887. 4to.
13. A Glossary of Cornish Names: ancient and modern, local, family, personal, etc. 2000 Celtic and other names, now or formerly in use in Cornwall. . . By the Rev. John Bannister. Williams & Norgate, London; J. B. Netherton, Truro, 1871. 8vo.
14. Articles in the Revue Celtique.
Vol. i. p. 332. “The Bodmin Manumissions.” By Dr. Whitley Stokes.
Vol. iii. p. 85. “Cornica.” Durdala, Dursona; Cornish in the Vatican [John of Cornwall’s Merlin]; Cornish Life of St. Columba [mention of a letter from Nicholas Roscarrock to Camden, referring to such a work]. By Dr. Whitley Stokes.
Vol. iii. p. 239. “Le dernier écho de la Langue Cornique.” By the Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma. [An account of the present writer’s Paper on “Traditional Relics of Cornish in Mount’s Bay,” with additions.]
Vol. iv. p. 258. “Cornica.” Fragments of a Drama. [Text and translation of the Add. Charter fragment (see p. 25)]. Cornish Phrases. [From Andrew Borde (see p. 30)]. By Dr. Whitley Stokes.
Vol. xiv. p. 70. “Les Glosses de l’Oxoniensis posterior sont elles Corniques?” p. 301. “Les mots Druic, Nader, dans le Vocabulaire Cornique.” By Prof. J. Loth.
Vol. xviii. p. 401. “Études Corniques I.” [On the pronunciation of d, t, s, z, j, etc.]. By Prof. Loth.
Vol. xxiii. p. 173. “Études Corniques II. Textes inédits en Cornique moderne.” [Genesis iii., St. Matth. iv., ii. From the Gwavas MS., with a French translation and notes]. By Prof. Loth.
Vol. xxiii. p. 236. “Études Corniques IV. Remarques et corrections au Lexicon Cornu-Britannica de Williams.” By Prof. Loth.
Vol. xxiv. p. 1. “Études Corniques V. Les Dix Commandements de Dieu.” [The versions of Boson and Kerew in the Gwavas MS., with a French translation and notes]. By Prof. Loth.
Vol. xxiv. p. 155. “Notes aux textes inédits en Cornique moderne.” [Notes, in English, on Prof. Loth’s edition of Genesis iii., St. Matth. iv., ii., in vol. xxiii.]. By Henry Jenner.
Vol. xxiv. p. 300. “Some Rough Notes on the present Pronunciation of Cornish names.” By Henry Jenner.
15. Articles in Archiv fur Celtische Lexicographie.
Bd. i. p. 101. “Glossary to Beunans Meriasek.” By Dr. Whitley Stokes.
p. 161. “Collation of Norris’s Cornish Drama.” By Dr. Whitley Stokes.
p. 224. “Cornique Moderne.” [The dialogues of Andrew Borde, and William Bodenor’s Letter; with restored texts, translations, and notes.] By Prof. Loth.
16. Grammatica Celtica e monumentis vetustis tam Hibernicae linguae quam Britannicarum dialectorum Cambricae Cornicae Aremoricae comparatis Gallicae priscae reliquiis. Construxit I. C. Zeuss. Editio altera. Curavit H. Ebel. Berolini, 1871. 4to.