William Hals, An Lhadymer ay Cornoack: The Interpreter or Expositor of Cornish (ca. 1685 - ca. 1725)
Date
1685ca.
1725ca.
Lexicographer
Book title
An Lhadymer ay Cornoack -- the Interpreter or Expositour of Cornish -- Beinge a Dictionary contayninge the Etymologies or Expositions of Diverse thousand words now Extant in the Cornish British Tongue and vsed: as the names of persons & places throughout this Land heretofore by our English Glossographers thought Barbarous
Transcription source
British Library Additional MS 71157
Text type
manuscript
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Cornish
Summary
An owner of this manuscript entitles it "The Cornish British Vocabulary Written by the Author of Merlins Prophesys Translated; and Explained, and the Parochiall History of Cornwall".
Language
headwords: Cornish
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
ii, 511
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Lahavan Lhavan the blade of a sword or knife. (265r)
sample: Lahavan Lhavan the blade of a sword or knife. (265r)
Criticisms
Hawke, Andrew. "A Rediscovered Cornish-English Vocabulary." Ed. Philip Payton. Cornish Studies 9 (2001): 83-104.
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