List of Cornish Dialect Words - L

L

  • Lan - (a place-name element) enclosure or monastic enclosure (in place-names usually the site of an early Christian cell though the meaning in Cornish is "enclosure")
  • Larrups - rags, shreds, bits
  • Launder - guttering, originally a trough in tin mining (from Cornish language londer)
  • Lawn - a field
  • Laze - (a place-name element) green (from Cornish language glas)
  • Learn - teach (from Cornish language desky which means both 'to learn' and 'to teach', similar to French apprendre)
  • Linhay - lean-to (of a building)
  • Louster - to work hard
  • Lowance out - to set limits financially (from "allowance")

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