Cornish

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English corn Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English cornish From corn + -ish.

1. cornlike; resembling corn

name

Etymology: From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.

1. The Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton.

   “There is a movement to revive Cornish.”

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9. A habitational surname from Old English [in turn originating as an ethnonym], referring to someone from Cornwall.

noun

1. One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.
2. Alternative form of cornice.

   “So the curve of Stonehenge, which is above 100 English feet, appears extraordinary large and well proportion'd, upon a height of 18 foot, which reaches to the top of the outer cornish; that of the inner cornishes is but 24 foot high, at a medium. For the cornishes of the inner part of Stonehenge, or that which Webb calls the cell, are not all of equal height, of which in proper place.”

   “The four rooms in the length of this building have door places crown'd with double cornishes, as represented in the plate of that architecture, together with ornaments of the winged globe.”