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This is a Swadesh list of words in Cornish English .
For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list .American linguist Morris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable rates and that these could be determined even for languages without written precursors. Using vocabulary lists, he sought to understand not only change over time but also the relationships of extant languages. To be able to compare languages from different cultures, he based his lists on meanings he presumed would be available in as many cultures as possible. He then used the fraction of agreeing cognates between any two related languages to compute their divergence time by some (still debated) algorithms. Starting in 1950 with 165 meanings, his list grew to 215 in 1952, which was so expansive that many languages lacked native vocabulary for some terms. Subsequently, it was reduced to 207, and reduced much further to 100 meanings in 1955. A reformulated list was published posthumously in 1971.
№ English Cornishedit (207) 1 I (1sg )my 2 you (2sg )ty 3 he , she , it (3sg )ev 4 we (1pl )ny 5 you (2pl )hwi 6 they (3pl )i 7 this an ma 8 that an na 9 here omma 10 there ena 11 who piw 12 what pyth 13 where ple 14 when p'eur 15 how fatel 16 not ny 17 all oll 18 many lies lower 19 some nebes 20 few nebes 21 other aral 22 one onan 23 two dew 24 three tri 25 four peswar 26 five pymp 27 big bras meur 28 long hir 29 wide ledan 30 thick tew 31 heavy poes 32 small bian byghan 33 short berr 34 narrow kul 35 thin moon tanow 36 woman benyn 37 man (adult male)gour gwas 38 man (human being)den 39 child flogh 40 wife gwreg 41 husband gour 42 mother mamm 43 father tas 44 animal enyval mil 45 fish pysk 46 bird edhen 47 dog ki 48 louse low 49 snake sarf 50 worm pryv 51 tree gwedh 52 forest koos koswik 53 stick lorgh 54 fruit frooth 55 seed has 56 leaf delen 57 root gwreydh 58 bark (of a tree)rusk 59 flower bleujen 60 grass gwels 61 rope lovan korden 62 skin kroghen 63 meat kig 64 blood goos 65 bone askorn 66 fat (noun)blonek 67 egg oy 68 horn korn 69 tail lost 70 feather pluv 71 hair blew gols 72 head penn 73 ear skovarn 74 eye lagas 75 nose troen 76 mouth ganow 77 tooth dans 78 tongue (organ)taves 79 fingernail ewyn 80 foot troes 81 leg garr 82 knee glin 83 hand dorn 84 wing askell 85 belly kroth torr 86 guts kolodhyon 87 neck konna 88 back keyn 89 breast bronn 90 heart kolon 91 liver avi 92 to drink eva 93 to eat dybri 94 to bite densel 95 to suck sugna dena 96 to spit berya trewa 97 to vomit hwyja 98 to blow hwytha 99 to breathe anella 100 to laugh hwerthin 101 to see gweles 102 to hear klywes 103 to know godhvos 104 to think prederi 105 to smell blasa klywes 106 to fear perthi own 107 to sleep koska 108 to live bywa 109 to die merwel 110 to kill ladha 111 to fight omladh 112 to hunt helghya 113 to hit gweskel skwatya 114 to cut treghi 115 to split folsa 116 to stab gwana pyghya 117 to scratch kravas 118 to dig palas 119 to swim neuvya 120 to fly neyja 121 to walk kerdhes 122 to come dos 123 to lie (as in a bed) gorwedhes 124 to sit esedha 125 to stand sevel 126 to turn (intransitive) treylya 127 to fall koedha 128 to give ry 129 to hold dalghenna synsi 130 to squeeze gwaska gwrynya strotha 131 to rub rutya 132 to wash golghi 133 to wipe sygha 134 to pull tenna 135 to push herdhya pokya 136 to throw tewlel 137 to tie kelmi 138 to sew gwrias sewya 139 to count akontya amontya nivera 140 to say leverel 141 to sing kana 142 to play gwari 143 to float neuvella 144 to flow bera dinewi 145 to freeze rewi 146 to swell hwythfi 147 sun howl 148 moon loer 149 star ster 150 water dowr 151 rain glaw 152 river avon 153 lake lynn 154 sea mor 155 salt holan 156 stone karrek men 157 sand tewes 158 dust doust polter 159 earth dor 160 cloud kommol 161 fog niwl 162 sky ebron 163 wind gwyns awel 164 snow ergh 165 ice rew yey 166 smoke mog 167 fire tan 168 ash lusow 169 to burn leski 170 road fordh hens 171 mountain menydh 172 red rudh 173 green glas gwyrdh 174 yellow melyn 175 white gwynn 176 black du 177 night nos 178 day dydh 179 year blydhen 180 warm toemm 181 cold yeyn 182 full leun 183 new nowydh 184 old hen koth 185 good da mas 186 bad drog 187 rotten breyn poder 188 dirty plos 189 straight ewn 190 round krenn 191 sharp (as a knife)lymm 192 dull (as a knife)sogh 193 smooth gwastas leven 194 wet glyb gwlygh 195 dry sygh 196 correct ewn 197 near ogas 198 far pell 199 right deghow 200 left kledh 201 at orth 202 in yn 203 with gans 204 and ha 205 if mar 206 because drefenn 207 name hanow
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