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Some interesting place-namen in Cornwall are being examined by the English Place-Name Socioty, which is working on a volume of Cornish place-names,
As the more obscuro valleys, moorlands, and porths of the Duchy aro becoming botter known to the over-penetrating public of Eng- land, maps and sign-posts and farm-gatca reveni now surprises in the form of place-namea. Some of these are grotesque; many are ex-. tremely melodious, others quite the roverse. Actually, few have wan- dered so far from their original form that little knowledge of the Cornish language fails to expiala them. It is when these old Celtie. names have been Anglicised into a sort of, pidgin-Cornish that the
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To take a few at random. What can be more imaginative than Idless, Belovely, or Noon Down- ing, or what more appealing na a home-name than Cutcaro or Como-. to-Good, Little Beside, Retire, or Lille Rogarded? They sound like fancy names, but they are far too old for that, and suburbia might well go to Cornwall for inspira- tion in these matters.
At the other end of the scale wo havo will. Purgatory, and Great Sinns. The translation of place- names is always a thorny subject, and full of pitfalls, but the origin of most of these is fairly clear. Idless was anciently Ed-less. Ed Is probably "ard," meaning high, and
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"les" micans an enclosure, or court. place of shelter,"is a likely clue to "free hunting," and another old ever since.
Belovely in corrupted (not alto-its original form.
family in the sumo district were Travellers in the Lizard ATO Ilwill, near Rame Head, is Weal the Inches of Earth. Here the cor- gether by accident,
would Gwill, the mine-fold. Purgatory nish ard or "arth," high, has be- sometimes puzzled by the think) from Belouda, or Belovka, can be explained harmlessly us Par-come earth. Music
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Laity on tho algn-poste. It would the ancient beacon which stands cow (flelds) and douric (watery). Wanderer (Wandra), Content, Probably surprise them to find that this quite English-looking word alongside Castle-un-dinas, on the So
all far from. suggesting any ana- Deary, and Bedwhindto are slopes of which Belovely lles. Noon Stygian fields, the Cornish Purga- 80 Gump, Gungor,
has, in this caso, a purely Celtic name and the rhythmical and melodious; but not logy between this
Gu, or Great origin. It is Laeth-ty, the milk- Downing was probably Noon-doon-tory is a most Elysian place. Great Grumbla.
house, or dairy. Even ic, "the valley by the down-land." Sinne owes its origin to the Celtic
Printer's Error
reating is Cost-is-lost, by which name farms near Camelford, Bod- There are quite a number of Come-["zans," a hollow.
An origin which must be unique min, and Padstow are known. It to-Goods, Cwm-ty-coit, "the Akin to Come-to-Good and Com-in the whole glossary of place-hav, of course, no reference to the coombo by the dwelling (ty) In the fort there is the well-known Penny names is responsible for Zoze farmer's initial outlay, but is a wood," and Comforts or fords incomequick, meaning tho head Point, one of the promontories at corruption of cos, a wood, ty, house
(pen) of the coombo by the creek the entrance to Falmouth Harbour, and loa, gray. (cuik). Such names as theso are its original Cornish nume WAS
There is in Sithney a farm call- fairly simple, but Stepaside, Fen-Zawn Point, zawn being a fairly ed Goody-goose, a nursery expres- The common Cornish word bos, therbed, Cripple's Cage, Fellover, common word round those coasts in which is all the more intrigg or bod, a home," is probably at Fatwork, and Girls are all baffling. for "a cave."
ing in this case because "good!” the root of both Little Beside and There are places called Dorset When the first Ordnance Survey happens to be Cornish for gouse. Belovely: Cutenre is, "Coit-caer," near Fowey and Launceston, a was made in the district the aur-It is probably an Anglicised form the camp in the wood; Retiro, near Fianceston, a Flanders in St. veyors took the word for Zone, but of Goed-y-goss, or, in other words, Belovely, is Reth-tyr, "the red Gennys, and, two Keiros and an on setting up the type for the maps Marshland Farm. Skyburrio, DORY Egypt in the Padstow district. the compositor accidentally inserted Falmouth, has a hint of the gib- house," and as to Little Regard Catchfrench, the ancient seat of the the third letter on its side, so that, berish about it, but it is actually an ed, its similarity to the Cornish Glanvilles near St. German's, is said in the type used, the "n" resembled uncorrupted Caralah word meaning name Tregarden, meaning "the to be Norman, chosse-franche, a "z" and it has been Zozo Point "the Barns,"
the coombe.
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