List of Cornish Dialect Words - T

T

  • Tacker - small child, toddler
  • Teal - to till, cultivate (e.g. 'tealing teddies')
  • Teasy - bad-tempered (from Cornish language tesek)
  • Teddy / tiddy - potato
  • Thirl - hungry
  • Tidden - tender
  • To - at; e.g. ""over to Cury" (at of Cury) Also "Where is it?" could be phrased as "Where's he/her to?" and "Where's that" as "Where's that to" (cp. usage in the Bristolian dialect).
  • Tob - a piece of turf
  • Tol - (a place-name element) hole (from Cornish language toll)
  • Towan - sandhill or dune (from Cornish language tewyn)
  • Tre - (a place-name element) house or settlement (properly a farmstead) (from Cornish language tre)

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