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   "Iain MacGiolla-odhar"  wrote in message   
   news:OzWvi.19902$4A1.13496@news-server.bigpond.net.au...   
   > Chess One wrote:   
   >> I posted this is a Cornish newsgroup which seems to have become the   
   >> playground for aggressive Muslim fundamentalists versus Bible thumpers,   
   >> so thought I might have better luck here:-   
   >>   
   >> Anyone know the p-Celtic or Cornish name for St. Michael's Mount? Even   
   >> the A. Sax name would do. Did the larger twin island Mont St Michel have   
   >> an earlier Breton name?   
   >>   
   >> Thanks, Phil   
   >   
   > Carrek Los yn Cos or Carrack Looz en Cooz meaning "the grey rock in the   
   > wood" since it was supposedly flooded by the sea where once it was a rocky   
   > hill surrounded by forest.   
      
   O Ay! & much thanks   
      
   I never did it on the South, but on the north coast at exceptional low tide   
   off Pentreath, you could go out [more than a mile?] and try to break off   
   bits of petrified forest. I heard it has also happened in the Bay, but wow!   
   must gave been an extraordinary low tide.   
      
   > In Kernewek:   
      
   Ay, et in Lyonesse, ego.   
      
   > carrek = rock   
   > loes/los = grey   
      
   It is interesting that the name for Glastonbury is often translated as if to   
   do with glass [plus the 'ton' which is Saxon for town, and the redundant   
   bury which is also for town] all of which is nonsense. The p-Celtic G-las   
   [loes/los] means 'grey' or 'transparent'.   
      
   > yn = in   
   > cooz = wood   
      
       Mairid a dheighmheic againn.   
      
   Cordially, Phil Ynys.   
      
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