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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
part of the glossary of their language, in understanding the meaning 
of names ; thus : 
Chy an d<mr. CJ/ y = house ; Latin, tectum; Irish, tfgli. 
An- the. 
Dour = water ; Greek, vStbp. 
" The house by the water." 
The plural of nouns was formed in Welsh and Armoric in many 
ways. 
a. Ow = Welsh, cm ; Breton, om. 
(3. ion, the characteristic Celtic plural ; Welsh, ion ; Breton, ten . 
Query. May not the Germanic plural n (in our English "children") 
come from the same source 1 In the Latin and Slavonic plurals we 
do not find n much used in the nom. plural. 
y. y. This is found in Welsh and Armoric. In the Bomanic 
and Slavonic we find it also. It is almost universal in the older 
Aryan languages. 
8. In some words the plural was the stem. This sounds strange 
to western ears, but it is common in Slavonic languages, the geni- 
tive plural often containing the root. The custom is not unnatural. 
Do we not in many cases want the plural more than the singular ? 
e.g. gueyth, trees ; guethen, a tree ; English, withy. 
deyl, leaves ; delen, a leaf. 
7). In many instances the plural was formed as in English and 
Erench, by adding s or es, and sometimes eth. 
0. A change in the body of the word. We have instances of 
this in English ; e.g. feet for foot. 
1. n merely, not ion. This is still used in Cornish, liousen for 
houses. 
There was a kind of dual number in Cornish, but not a true dual, 
as in Greek or Hebrew; i.e. formed by a peculiar termination. It 
was merely a prefix, dy or dew, added to the word, and absorbed into 
it. It was thus a sort of agglutinative dual, as in Turanian lan- 
guages ; e.g. Duscoth = the two shoulders. Deuglyn = the two knees. 
The adjective usually follows the noun, as in so many Con- 
tinental languages at present; e.g. Mor ruyth ■ = the "Bed Sea." 
We have still an instance in Trewidden = " Place white." Carndhu 
= the "black earn," or " earn black" literally, 
j The numerals are at present the most interesting part of the 
language, as the part of which the tradition is most lively, with 
