m,"
in speaking of a list of words borrowed from Latin by the Welsh during the
stay of the Romans in Britain, is no doubt right in stating "that it will
be found much more extensive than is generally imagined."

Latin words which have reached the Cornish after they had assumed a French
or Norman disguise, are, for instance,--

_Emperur_, instead of Latin _imperator_ (Welsh, _ymherawdwr_).

_Laian_, the French _loyal_, but not the Latin _legalis_.
Likewise, _dislaian_, disloyal.

_Fruit_, fruit; Lat. _fructus_; French, _fruit_.

_Funten_, fountain, commonly pronounced _fenton_; Lat. _fontana_;
French, _fontaine_.

_Gromersy_, _i.e._ grand mercy, thanks.

_Hoyz, hoyz, hoyz!_ hear, hear! The Norman-French, _Oyez_.

The town-crier of Aberconwy may still be heard prefacing his notices with
the shout of "Hoyz, hoyz, hoyz!" which in other places has been corrupted
to "O yes."

The following words, adopted into Cornish and other Celtic dialects,
clearly show their Saxon origin:--

_Cafor_, a chafer; Germ, _kaefer_. _Craft_, art, craft. _Redior_, a
reader. _Storc_, a stork. _Let_, hindrance, let; preserved in the
German, _verletzen_.(54)

Considering that Cornish and other Celtic dialects are members of the same
family to which Latin and German belong, it is sometimes difficult to tell
at once whether a Celtic word was really borrowed, or whether it belongs
to that ancient stock of words which all the Aryan languages share in
common. This is a point which can be determined by scholars only, and by
means of phonetic tests. Thus the Cornish _huir_, or _hoer_, is clearly
the same word as the Latin _soror_, sister. But the change of _s_ into _h_
would not have taken place if the word had been simply borrowed from
Latin, while many words beginning with _s_ in Sanskrit, Latin, and German,
change the _s_ into _h_ in Cornish as well as in Greek and Persian. The
Cornish _hoer_, sister, is indeed curiously like the Persian _khaher_, the
regular representative of the Sanskrit _svasar_, the Latin _soror_. The
same applies to _braud_, brother, _dedh_, day, _dri_, three, and many more
words which form the primitive stock of Cornish, and were common to all
the Aryan languages before their earliest dispersion.

What applies to the language of Cornwall, applies with equal force to the
other relics of antiquity of that curious county. It has been truly said
that Cornwall