336 " JEWS IN CORNWALL "; AND "'^ MARAZION." 



Hebrew (Yehucli, or Jehudi, much tlie same as in MarcM de Jeudi).* 

 In Latin it is loudceus ; Greek, lov^aiog; Welsh, luddew, pi., 

 luddewon; Armoric, luzeo, pL, luzevein ; Gael, ludach; and 

 Manx, Ew. This latter form, shorter even than the " lew," page 

 325, shows to how simple a state the name may be reduced, when 

 used in forming compound words ; and I have no hesitation in say- 

 ing that the following forms of the name in question fairly admit of 

 this rendering : Marchasyoive, Marghas low, MarMsyou, Marghasiew, 

 Marghasieive, Marhesju, Markesiow, Marhjsew, MarJcysijow, Marhys- 

 owe, Markysyoo, Marhjsho, MarJcaiewe, Varha-Dzhow f , Marka-Jew, 

 Mark-jew, Markjue, Margeiv, Marcliew, &c. 



A person accustomed to these studies will see at once how the 

 sounds of these various forms run into one another, and might be 

 taken for each other, especially remembering that s=z, and z=dzk 

 or j. Thus Tresavean is vulgarly pronounced Tridzhyvean ; the 

 family name Tregian, Tredzhon ; and " third " is represented by 

 trissa, trige, tridzha. 



But we can easily bring several other forms to this same sig- 

 nification. Everyone knows how difficult it is in ordinary pen- 

 manship, and still more in ladies' caligraphy, to distinguish 

 between n and it. It is the same in old MSS. We have given an 

 example in Marasdeythyou. We will shortly give another. Make 

 but this change, and the following forms, as well as the foregoing, 

 admit of a pronunciation approaching to Market Jew=Jew market, 

 i.e. by simply changing n into u, and giving i, y, the consonantal 

 sound of j : Marchadyon, Markesin, Marghazyon, Marghasion, Mark- 

 azyon, MoA-kazion, Markasyon, Markesion. There are also Markine= 

 Markjue, Merdresein, which by some miscopying or misreading has 

 been made into Merdresem ; and, by dropping the guttural ch or 

 gJi, which in old Cornish are used indiscriminately, we may bring 

 in the modern Marazion, and a gross corruption, Maryazion. % 



• See page 333, 



f This is the form found in the Cornish story given by Lhuyd, Pryce, 

 &c. The V=M. It is the grammatical mutation of that letter, requu-ed by 

 its position in the narrative, and a genuine old Cornishman would always 

 pronounce V in such a situation, though the name was written with M. 



\ The y here may be a misreading for g. In another spelling given by 

 Mr. Smirke, {Journal No. V, p. 6), Marhagon, the g has either been mis- 

 placed, or is to be pronounced dzh,j. 



