Cornish

From Corn(wall) +‎ -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnɪʃ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːɹnɪʃ/

Cornish (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Cornwall, a county of southwest England.
2. Native to Cornwall.
3. Of or pertaining to the Cornish language.

Cornish pl (plural only)

1. (collectively) The inhabitants of Cornwall, especially native-born.

• See Cornishman, Cornubian

Cornish

1. The Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton.

   There is a movement to revive Cornish.

2. The name of a town:
   1. A town in Maine.
   2. A town in New Hampshire.
   3. A town in Oklahoma.
   4. A town in Utah, at the border with Idaho.
3. A habitational surname from Old English [in turn originating as an ethnonym], referring to someone from Cornwall.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cornish terms

• ISO 639-1 code kw, ISO 639-3 code cor (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Cornish, cor ⁠
• “Cornish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• WIKITONGUES: Elizabeth speaking Cornish

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