Re: Breton, Cornish & French

Michael Lightfoot wrote:
> John Briggs wrote:
>
>> Chess One wrote:
>>> Should you be able to provide actual souce for such opinions, by all
>>> means proceed to do so, and then perhaps we could discuss the limits
>>> to 'Wes***' speech and of West Saxon as independent language from
>>> even Wester Saxon.
>>> Saets, ***, sets, saetans/satans? Coincidence? The meaning of the
>>> early Saxon word Saetans was 'Giants'. It is repeated in the bible,
>>> and thus earlier than Saxon origin, though certainly incor****ated
>>> into the language of the land featuring giant landscape figures.
>>> This is merely history, I have not understood from any writer what
>>> it is that is merely 'coincidence'?
>>
>> Yes, coincidence (to be pedantic, near coincidence.)  Dictionaries
>> would help you an awful lot.
>
> And because there is a distressing tendency here and elsewhere to
> ignore scholar****p and flaunt ignorance, here is what Wikipedia says:
>
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>
> The name derives from Old English Sumors?te, which is short for
> Sumortuns?te, meaning "the people living at or dependent upon
> Sumortun".[2] The first known use of the name Somersæte was in 845,
> after the region fell to the Saxons.[3] Sumortun is modern Somerton
> and may mean "summer settlement", a farmstead occupied during the
> summer but abandoned in the winter.[4] However, Somerton is not down
> on the levels—lower ground, where only summer occupation was possible
> because of flooding—but on a hill where winter occupation would have
> been feasible. An alternative suggestion is that the name derives
> from Seo-mere-saetan meaning "settlers by the sea lakes".[5]
>
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>
> I will leave it to others to check the four sources (the numbers in
> square brackets) by going to Wikipedia or other reputable sites and
> reading for themselves.

Yes, yes - but Phil has been told all this before, and has ignored it.
-- 
John Briggs