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English[en]
I had a little more luck with our final word for today, estenna (to extract). This was one of the most important aspects of mining, for how else could money be made if the minerals were not first extracted from the earth? This word is also made up of two parts es and tenna (to pull) and cognates to the Welsh echdynnu, also made up of the same two parts ech and tynnu. This es/ech is rather interesting as it isn't often used these days, they are a form of out fro the Proto-Celtic exs- meaning out of. The tenna/tynnu part is most likely decended from the Latin trahere which means to drag or to pull. The Breton language uses a slightly less complicated way of extracting, they simply tennañ maez or pull out compare with Cornish tenna yn-mes and Welsh tynnu mas.
Cornish[kw]
Yth esen vy tamm moy feusik gans an ger finek rag hedhyw, estenna. Hemm o elven posek a valweyth awos fatel alsa gwaynya arghans mar ny estennas an monow a-dhyworth an Nor? Gwrys yw an ger ma a dhiw elven es ha tenna ha ger ogas dhodho yw an Kembrek echdynnu, gwrys an keth elvennow ech ha tynnu. An es/ech ma yw didheurek, i a dheu a-dhyworth an Proto-Keltek exs- a styr mes a. An tenna/tynnu a dheu a-dhyworth an ger trahere yn Latinek dres lycklod a styr tenna po draylya. Tamm essa yw an ger Bretonek tennañ maez usi agos dhe'n Kernowek tenna yn-mes ha dhe'n Kembrek tynnu mas.