Re: CELT: / Usage(ish): Cornwall

[James Campbell <james@ZEUGMA.FORCE9.CO.UK>]

djun-huana un naliu
[John Cowan wrote:]

> I can't even guess about Kernu, but probably something fairly
> close to "Cornwall" (what is the etymology of the "-wall" part
> anyway?).

I always assumed that it had the same origin as the -l at the end of
Bristol (originally Bristow), due to the inclination of West Country folk
to put an l at the end of words.

I recently heard that some Somerset folk call an Aga (a type of huge
farmhouse boiler-cum-oven) an "Agal", so evidently this feature of the
dialect is still productive.

James
[domiciled 1 mile outside Somerset, just inside Dorset]

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