De Consolatione Philosophiae

“ud rocashaas” appears above the adjective perosa ‘loathing’ in De Consolatione Philosophiae by Boethius, in a passage in which Philosophy tells Boethius, “For I have swift feathers, which fly up to the height of heaven. When quick Thought clothes herself in them, with loathing she despises the lands below (Terras perosa despicit)” (Breeze 2007: 367). Cashaas is the third person preterite ‘hated’ and has the Middle Cornish reflex casas. Ro is the perfective verbal particle and has the Middle Cornish reflex re. Breeze (2007: 368) explains ud as a gloss for terras, ‘land’.

SWF

[ud] re gasas

References

• Mills, Jon, "A short history of Cornish lexicography" in Words and Dictionaries: A Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday (Jagiellonian University Press, 2016), pp. 205 - 214