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Where does “Sowsneger” come from?

Sowsneger (Cornish) comes from Cornish Sowsnek, from Cornish Sowson, from Cornish Sows — Englishman.

Sowsneger (Cornish): English-speaker, Anglophone

Definitions

  1. English-speaker, Anglophone

Ancestry of “Sowsneger”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1CornishSowsnek—
2CornishSowsonplural of Sows
3CornishSowsEnglishman
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