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PREPOSITIONS, CONJUNCTIONS, ADVERBS 153 MISCELLANEOUS ADVERBS. cowal, cowl, quite. namna, almost. ken, else. martesan, perhaps. betegens, nevertheless. moghya, mostly. ketel, ketella, so. pur (governing second state), very. bras, ) (placed after an adjec- fesf, ) tive), very. ogasti, nearly, almost. warbarth, warbarh, together. ni, nyns, nig, na, nag, not. 1 hepmar, doubtless. perag, prag, fraga, why. patla,fatel,fatla, how. ^ pelta, much, pelta gwel, much better. otta, welta, behold. nahen, otherwise. 1 na = ni + a (nag before a vowel), ought only to be used with interrogatives, but the later writers of Cornish did not always do as they ought.