De Yow, seythves mis Dû
Thursday, 7th November
Na ellama sevel orth striwy hedhyw. Ma dhebm dewfrik goverek. Ow dewlagas ew goverek ewedh ha ma drog pedn genam. Agan flehes gwydn a veu òbma de Lün hag anjei a dhros aga eginyow annes ganjans. (Robert Koch, fycycyan ha microbiologist Jermanek, a lavaras dr'ew cleves causys gen eginyow.) Excûss vas ew dhe wòrtas et ow gwily! Bes blewek ew en gwily ha res ew dhebm sevel emann ha maga an bestes. Nena my alja redya. Da ew genam mires orth mappys coth. Ma lies gover en Kernow. My a wra aga whithra. Ma lies gover ogas dhe “Penwethers” (ogas dhe Coos Nansavallan). An hanow a wrüg defaleby diweyth po môy.
I can't stop sneezing today. I have a snuffly nose. My eyes are watery as well and I have a headache. Our grandchildren were here on Monday and they brought their cold germs with them. (Robert Koch, a German physician and microbiologist, said that illness is caused by germs.) It's a good excuse to stay in my bed! But it's boring in bed and I've got to get up and feed the animals. Then I could read. I like looking at old maps. There are lots of streams in Cornwall. I will research them. There are many streams near Penwethers (near Nansavallan Wood). The name has mutated two or more times.
Deg ger rag hedhyw: Ten words for today
annes common cold (you can also use anwòs with same pronunciation - w is silent and last syllable is a schwa)
blewek boring, dull (literally hairy, furry, etc.)
dewfrik dual plural nose (you can also use frigow) < frig nostril
dewlagas dual plural eyes (you can also use lagajow) < lagas eye
drog pedn headache (here drog hurt is a noun rather than an adjective)
eginyow germs (no attested word because the language had died out before the Henle-Koch germ theory of disease was published in 1890)
goverek snuffling, snivelling, watery < gover stream
sevel orth to stop (doing something)
striwy to sneeze
whithra to research
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