List of Cornish Dialect Words - A

A

• Abroad - open: "Laive the door abroad boy" i.e. do not shut it
• Addled - empty, cracked or broken; e.g. addled eggs
• Aglets - hawthorn berries
• Agone - ago; as in 'a week agone' (mid and east Cornwall)
• Alt - cliff (a place-name element) (from Cornish language als)
• Ansome - lovely (from "handsome"); Me ansome (familiar way to address a man)
• Ar'm - are 'em/aren't they
• Ay? - I beg your pardon?
• Ayes (pronounced, 'ace') - yes (see also: "Ess", below)