owr

Cornish

Chemical element
Au
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Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic [Term?], borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin aurum. Compare Welsh awr, aur, Breton aour.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɔʊr]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɔʊr]

Noun

owr m

1. gold

Yola

Preposition

owr

1. Alternative form of ower
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 21-23:

     Ye pace——yea, we mai zei, ye vaste pace whilke bee ee-stent owr ye londe zince th'ast ee-cam,

     The peace——yes, we may say the profound peace—which overspreads the land since your arrival,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114