User:WolfOfNorthumbria/Cumbrian Welsh

In the 2000s, a group of enthusiasts proposed a revival of the Cumbric language and launched a social networking site and a "revived Cumbric" guidebook to promote it, but with little success. Writing in Carn magazine, Colin Lewis noted that there was disagreement in the group about whether to base "revived Cumbric" on the surviving sources for the language or try to reconstruct the form Late Cumbric may have taken after the attested period, but his own suggestion was simply to use Modern Welsh, with its rich literature, culture and history. However, Cumbrian Welsh should employ a separte standard from that of the Welsh language in Wales, which accounts for genuinely attested sound changes in Cumbric, and is open to important Cumbrian cultural terms and place names of English/Old Norse origin.
 * blain 'summit, end' from a possible Br. *blacno- (W. blaen 'point, end, top').
 * cair '(Roman) fort', perhaps 'village, estate' from Br. *cassrik- (W. caer 'castle, city', C. ker 'fort, city', B. kêr 'village, town' previously 'city, fort')
 * cêd 'wood' from Br. Br. cɛ̄to- 'wood' (W. coed, C. koos, B. koad)
 * egluis 'church' from L. ecclēsia via LBr. *eclēsjā 'church' (W. eglwys, C. eglos, B. iliz)
 * lannerch 'clearing' from Br. *landercā (W. llanerch, C. lannergh).
 * mêl 'bald' from Br. *mailo- (W. moel 'bald; (bare) mountain, (treeless) hill, hilltop, summit', C. mool, B. maol : G. maol).
 * penn 'head; chief' from Br. *penno- (W. pen 'head,, summit, promontory; chief, principal', C. penn 'head, end; main, premier').
 * prenn 'tree, timber' from Br. *prenno- (W. pren 'tree; timber, wood', C. prenn 'timber, log').
 * ros 'promontory, headland; moor' from Br. *rosto- (W. rhos 'upland, heath, moor; marshland, plain', C. ros 'hill-spur, promontory; moor', B. roz 'upland, side of a valley').