| Rhyming words with stressed -e [-'ɛː] (full list) |
||
|---|---|---|
| be | 63 | might be |
| bre | FN | prominent hill |
| de | AV | yesterday |
| degre | MN | degree |
| e | 23 | used to go |
| e' | PN | him |
| fre | AJ | free |
| Galile | NL | Galilee |
| gre | MN | herd |
| gre | MN | rank |
| gwre | 23 | used to do |
| hware | AV | forthwith |
| hwe' | NC | six |
| ke | 72 | go! |
| Ke | NP | Kea |
| le | AJ | less |
| le | MN | location |
| Me | MN | May |
| pe | MN | pay |
| pe | VN | to pay |
| ple | AV | where |
| re | AJ | free |
| re | AV | too |
| re | PN | those |
| re | 13 | gives |
| se | MN | throne |
| te | MN | tea |
| thee | VN(Middle English) | thrive |
| tre | FN | town |
| ye | IJ | yea | Rhyming words with stressed -e from earlier -eu (full list) |
| be' | 33 | was |
| de' | 13 | comes |
| de' | AJ | ended |
Rhyming words with unstressed [-ɛ] were common in the Ordinalia and PA,
and the following table lists the four such words which are found over 30 times.
These spellings do not feature in the revived language,
because Nance chose to use the later spellings,
where -e was replaced by -a.
For example, he wrote cara 'to love', instead of earlier care,
because the latter would have been mispronounced as English care, instead of ['kaˑrɛ].
Both KK and SWF have followed Unified Cornish in this matter.
Editions of the early texts have been published in all three orthographies,
but none show their rhyming patterns properly.
To do that, one would have to use spellings in -e,
such as those in the following table.
| Rhymes in unstressed -e [-ɛ] (found in texts over 30 times) |
||
|---|---|---|
| ese | 23 | was |
| lowene | FN | joy |
| lowte | MN | loyalty |
| nefre | AV | never |
There are about 1890 of these.