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- #Cornish spider-crab names baa't-stailer ba-wiggle bait stealer cannykeeper corwich crabalorgin creagle gaberick gabrick gaverick gavrygen gezza-crab gramfer jinkin grezza-crab griggle grill keywaigle keywiggle potherick pothrick quiddle quiggle samson george skerry spider tragezawt wiggle #langsky
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- #Cornish: gwragh brenn and #Breton: gwrac'h-koad mean "wood witch/wrasse" where #Brezhoneg: 'koad' ("wood") is cognate with #Welsh: coed ("wood" group of trees). #Cymraeg: 'pysgoden broc môr' means "sea wreckage #fish" where 'broc' has came from English: "broke" (fragment). #Kernewek #langsky
- I can't find any #Cornish or #Breton names for the witch flounder #fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus. The #Welsh: (lleden/pysgoden) witsian is the adapted English 'witch' (fish). #Latin: cynoglossus means dog/hounds tongue akin to #German Hundszunge; #Dutch hondstong fish names of the witch. #langsky
- The whiting, merling (Merlangius merlangus) #fish names in #Cornish: gwynnek #Welsh: gwyniad and #Breton: gwenneg are all derived from the colour word 'white' in #Kernewek: gwynn #Cymraeg: gwyn #Brezhoneg: gwen.
- #Welsh: cranc llygatgoch means "red-eyed crab" without any remake upon its velvety appearance like #French: 'crabe laineux' ("woolly crab") and #Breton 'krank-mordañvad' "sea+sheep crab". #Cornish: 'krank neyj glas' means "blue swim/flying/floating crab". #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
- The tripoint near the village of Beregsurány in Hungary, Bercu in Romania, and Dyida (Ukrainian: Дийда) in Ukraine is not only a geographical curiosity but also an etymological one. Do you know which one? Find it here: mapologies.com/fruits/
- #Cornish: leyth vrith (=brith) means "speckled flatfish" while all the others have adapted a form of 'turbot' #Breton: turbodenn; #Welsh: torbwt which came into English from Anglo-Norman via #French: turbot from a Old #Norse source which gave #Swedish: törnbut - törn+but (thorn+flatfish). #langsky
- No-one seems to know where the word "tope" comes from but the Oxford English Dictionary says it's probably a #Cornish (dialect?) borrowed word without citing any alternates? #Welsh: ('ci glas') calls it literally a "blue dog".
- #Welsh has morgath ("ray" lit. sea+cat) pigog ("spiky ray") / garw ("rough ray") / stỳds ("studs ray") for the 'thornback ray'. #Cornish: karleyth grija is 'sturgeon ray' with 'krija' being cognate with #Breton: 'kreia' ("sturgeon"). #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
- #Breton doesn't seem to differentiate between the small-eyed ray (Raja microocellata) and the undulate ray with both being in #Brezhoneg: rae c'hris ("grey ray"). Both #Cornish: "tonnek" and #Welsh: "tonnog" calque #Latin: 'undulata' "wavy ray". #Cymraeg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
- #Welsh: môr-lawes ("squid") literally means "sea-sleeve" while #Cymraeg: ystifflog ("cuttlefish; squid") is cognate with #Cornish: stifek and #Breton: stivellog which are derived from #Kernewek: stif and #Brezhoneg: stiv with the meaning of a 'jet of water'. #langsky #fish
- All are in unison incorporating the 'spiny'; 'spur' element in their names for the spiny dogfish; spurdog (Squalus acanthias). #Cornish: drenek literally means 'thorny' with #Welsh: dreiniog and #Breton: dreinek both "thorny" being cognates. #Cymraeg: pigog =spiny #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
- On the face of it #Cornish: karleyth deyl du ("spotted ray") looks like it means black ("du") manure ("teyl") ray ("karleyth") but it's surmised to mean either 'thick brow'("tal dew") or 'burnt brow' ("tal *dewi") *cognates #Breton: deviñ, #Welsh: deifio #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
- The first element ("gor-") of #Cornish: gorleythen ("Dover sole" #fish) corresponds to #Breton: garlizen rather than the #Kernewek prefix gor- "over-" according to the dictionary. The #Brezhoneg: frankenn ("sole") is from Norman #French: 'fanque' (modern French "fange") mud, filth. #langsky #Welsh
- The #Welsh: 'morgath lygaid-bach' is a calque of English 'small-eyed ray' but unsure of what's behind the meaning of #Cornish: 'karleyh ol' where 'ol' means "trail; track; (foot) print; mark". #Kernewek: oula is another word for an "owl". #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Breton #langsky #fish
- I can't seem to find a specific word for 'shagreen ray' in #Cornish nor a definitive word in #Breton? #French, #Welsh have names relating to tradional clothmaking with 'raie chardon' ("fuller's thistle; teasel") and #Cymraeg: cribog ("fuller's comb"). A 'fuller' in #Kernewek is troghyer. #langsky
- The #French: goémon ("seaweed") was borrowed from Middle #Breton: gwemon (Breton: goumon) although #Brezhoneg: bezhin has largely surpassed goumon. Brezhin is cognatre with #Welsh: eithin and #Cornish: eythinn ("gorse, furze") as well as #Irish: feamainn ("seaweed"). #langsky #Cymraeg #Kernewek
- #Breton: skouarnigell ("variegated scallop") literally means "little ear": skouarn ("ear" - #Welsh "ysgyfarn") + diminutive -ig + suffix -ell (or -igell) which I would've expected its plural to be *skouarnigelloù rather than skouarnigelled? #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #Cornish #langsky #fish
- #Cornish: hernen and #Welsh: pennog both really mean "herring". If you've heard of a 'stargazy pie', #Kernewek: hogen ster-lagatta ("star-staring pie") or hogen sterwolok ("starry") then it's tradionally pilchards baked in a pie 'staring' at the heavens. #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Breton #langsky #fish
- Can't find a specific #Cornish word for a 'sand sole' #fish other than a generic leythen ("flatfish"). There's an equivalent to #Breton: garlizenn ("sole") in #Kernewek: gorleythen but that's a Dover sole. #Cymraeg is really Dover sole ("lleden wadn") + sand ( "y tywod"). #Brezhoneg #Welsh #langsky
- Confusingly, there are a couple of #fish species that we both lump together and call "red mullet". English "surmullet" is from #French: surmulet which means "reddish-brown mullet". #Cymraeg: mingrwn ("mullet") means 'round-lipped'. #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #Welsh #Cornish #langsky
- #Cornish: elek ("gurnard" #fish) means "big-browed" from #Kernewek: el "projection" #Breton: elleck ("spurred") #Welsh: aeliog ("big-browed"). #Cymraeg: penhaearn means "ironhead" due to the shape of the red gurnard's head. #Brezhoneg #langsky
- Some other languages with pilgrim+shell compound words for "scallop". #Catalan: petxina de pelegrí #Galician: cuncha de pelegrín #Spanish: concha de peregrino #Italian: conchiglia dei pellegrini #Portuguese: concha de peregrino #German: Große Pilgermuschel #Swedish: pilgrimsmussla #langsky
- #Cornish: kelligen ("razor-shell") is a shortened form of kellylygen, a diminutive of kellyllik ("pocket-knife") itself a diminutive of kollell ("knife"). Similarly #Breton: kontelleg is a diminutive of kontell ("knife") while troad-kontell is "knife-handle" from the shape of the shell. #langsky
- #Cornish: krogen brierin ("scallop") is literally “pilgrim's shell” the scallop shell being the emblem of Christian pilgrims of Santiago de Compostela and was originally worn as proof of a successful pilgrimage. #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #Welsh #langsky #fish
- The etymology of #Cornish: bibyn bubyn (prawn; shrimp) is unclear but #Kernewek: 'legestik' is a diminutive of 'legest' meaning "little lobster" (also means "langoustine" - Nephrops norvegicus) while similarly #Welsh: corgimwch means "dwarf-lobster". #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #langsky #fish
- #French: tacaud is from #Breton: takohed ("pouting" #fish) which may be connected to French "tacon" ("young salmon") proably from a #Gaulish source? #Cornish: lagetter ("starer") and #Brezhoneg: daoulagad braz ("big eyes") allude to the pouting's large eyes. #Cymraeg #Kernewek #Welsh #langsky
- #Welsh: morleisiad ("pollack") is formed from môr+gleisiad which means "sea young salmon" utlimately from #Cymraeg: glas ("blue/green"). #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #Welsh #Cornish #langsky #fish
- The red-orange spots of the European plaice are reflected in #Cymraeg: (lleden) smotyn coch, #Brezhoneg: (lizenn) ruz and #Kernewek: (leythen) rudh as well as other languages especially Scandinavian: #Faroese: reyðsprøka #Swedish: rödspätta #Danish: rødspætte #Icelandic: rauðspretta #langsky #fish
- The Pacific or Japanese oyster was introducted in the 1960s in France to replace the native oyster stocks which were seriously dwindling due to overfishing and viral disease. #Cornish: hebask ("peaceful"; Pacific) is 'pask' ( #Latin: pax "peace") + prefix 'he-' (easily, readily). #langsky #Kernewek
- #Cornish: kollell-lesa ("octopus") is akin to #Welsh: môr-gyllell ("cuttlefish") literally sea+knife (="cyllell") but #Kernewek attaches '-lesa' making it mean something like, "wide/spreading/unfolding knife". #Breton: poch-an-toer looks like it's "roofer's bag, pocket". #Brezhoneg #langsky #fish
- The #Welsh: 'wystrys' ("oysters") was borrowed from Middle English: 'oistres' from #Latin: 'ostrea' same as the other languages #Breton, #Cornish and #French but all ultimately from Ancient #Greek: ὄστρεον (óstreon). Etymology of #Cymraeg: 'llymarch' is unknown. #Kernewek #Brezhoneg #fish #langsky
- The (Southern Wales) #Welsh: 'misglod' ("mussels") is a double-plural which doesn't occur in English but is quite common in #Breton, #Cornish and to a lesser degree in #Cymraeg. Northern Welsh uses 'cragen las' ("blue shell") and 'cragen ddu' ("black shell"). #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
- All seem to have a #fish- or sea- 'toad'/'devil' naming theme, #Cornish: malan ("devil"), #Welsh: cythrual ("devil") #Breton: mordouseg ("sea-toad") #Cymraeg: llyfant ("toad") The term 'monkfish' seems to be uniquely British but #Brezhoneg does have a variant morvanah (sea-monk). #Kernewek #langsky
- #Welsh: "macrell" had been borrowed a long time ago either from English or Old #French "maquereau". #Cymraeg: "brithyll" is the cognate to both #Cornish: "brithel" and #Breton: "brezhel" but means "trout" instead of 'mackerel'. The 'brith' element means 'mottled'. #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
- There's an old cognate in #Cymraeg: "llegest" which refers to various marine animals ranging from octopuses to lobsters. Ultimately it's probably derived from #Latin: 'locusta' “locust, lobster". #Breton: 'kemener-mor' means "sea-tailor" alluding to its shear-like claws. #Kernewek #Cornish #langsky
- The #Welsh: 'brenhinbysg' means "kingfish" while the 'honos' (common ling #fish ) refers to things that are long-bodied, lanky. #Cornish: "lenes" and #Breton: "leanez" also means 'nun' ( #Cymraeg: lleian ) so 'morlean' can mean "sea-monk" and 'morleanez' "sea-nun". #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky
- I'm not sure what the etymology of the #Cornish: "teyl" and #Breton: "touilh" is but there is an older term for a 'dogfish' in #Welsh: "twyl" which I would guess is a cognate although the dictionary does give any further information about. #Cymraeg #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #langsky #fish
