[Fictionary] YANNIGAN results!

[Pierre Abbat]

On Tuesday, July 22, 2025 9:28:09 PM EDT E wrote:
> Elliott: Bombards being the most diuretic instrument ever invented, I'm
> sure the dance is lively if there's a chorus of them. But the word just
> doesn't sound very Breton to me, somehow.

It does to me: "Yannig" is Breton for "Johnny", and there are words ending in 
-gan, such as "Konogan" (another given name) and "hogan" (haw, a fruit that 
looks like a small apple with big seeds).

Looking through the Breton lemmas in Wiktionary, I found Borduria, which I 
knew only as a country near Syldavia mentioned in some Tintin books. It turns 
out that there's also a place called Borduria in India. It's not clear which 
one is the Breton Borduria, but the Spanish quotation shows that it's the 
country near Syldavia.

Pierre
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