cornish
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Cornish¹
- /ˈkɔː.nɪʃ/ UK
- /ˈkɔɹ.nɪʃ/ US
- /ˈkɔː(r).nɪʃ/ India
Where it comes from
From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Cornwall, a county of southwest England.
- Native to Cornwall.
- Of or pertaining to the Cornish language.
noun
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The inhabitants of Cornwall, especially native-born.
Similar: Cornishman, Cornubian
proper noun Cornishes
- The Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton. There is a movement to revive Cornish.
- An unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in York County, Maine.
- A township in Aitkin County, Minnesota.
- A township in Sibley County, Minnesota.
- A town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
- A town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
- A town in Cache County, Utah, at the border with Idaho.
- A habitational surname from Old English [in turn originating as an ethnonym], referring to someone from Cornwall.
cornish²
noun cornishes
- One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.
- Alternative form of cornice So the curve of Stonehenge, which is above 100 English feet, appears extraordinary large and well proportion'd, upon a height of 18 foot, which reaches to the top of the outer cornish; that of the inner cornishes is but 24 foot high, at a medium. For the cornishes of the inner part of Stonehenge, or
cornish³
adjective
- cornlike; resembling corn
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: corniche, warre, pasties, cornwall, chough, bowden, choughs, tinners, cornwallian, cornubian, breton, somersetian, kentish, welsh, anglo-french, cantuarian
Translations
Every language
name Celtic language of Cornwall
| Español | córnico |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | コーンウォール語 kōnwōru go |
| 中文 | 康瓦耳語 /康瓦耳语 Kāngwǎ'ěr yǔ |
| Português | córnico |
| Français | cornique |
| Deutsch | Kornisch, kornische Sprache |
| Italiano | cornovagliese |
| Română | cornică |
| Русский | корнуэ́льский kornuélʹskij, корнский kornskij |
| Tiếng Việt | tiếng Cornwall |
| עברית | קורנית |
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