COENISH NAMES. 



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down ; Goonvrea, hill {Ire) down ; Browngelly, grove {celli) hill 

 {hron) ; Burnawithan, the hill with a tree {gwedhen) ; Cam Kear, 

 the long {an Mr) earn ; Carnbargus, kite's {hargus) cam ; Polguin, 

 white {givyn) pool {pol); Polscatha, boats {scathow) pool; Poladrick, 

 Hydroc's pool ; Lanhydrock, Ydroc's church, or farm, or enclosure ; 

 Lanner, long (Jiir) enclosure ; Lannarth, high {arth) enclosure. 



Karnes thus formed are found everywhere in the county, and 

 thousands more than these, with equally plain and simple signi- 

 fications, requiring very little change to be made in the spelling, 

 in tracing them to their roots, except such as is always made in the 

 Celtic language in forming compound words. Perhaps the names 

 about which one can speak most positively as to the meaning are 

 those of fields, of which thousands are to be found in the Tithe 

 Apportionments of the several parishes, either pure, just as they 

 were given by those speaking the old Cornish, or in various stages 

 of corruption, resulting from their having been handed down orally, 

 without their signification being known, and often so turned into 

 some English word with a meaning, or from the difiiculty the 

 surveyors found in catching the exact sounds, and then accurately 

 expressing them. The most common word for a close or field is 

 Park. Gweal is also frequent, and Eru and Say also are found. 

 Names beginning with the two former have frequently aw, the 

 article before the qualifying word, and this is often corrupted into 

 m, or m, or and; and Parkan is often contracted to Pen. A few 

 examples may be given. Park an Skeber, barn {sceher) close; 

 Parkenvor, field by the road {fordh); Park Vcan, or Bean, little 

 {hihan) close ; Park Vore, great {rnawr) close ; Park AVartha, or 

 Warra, higher close ; Park Wollas, lower {wollach) close ; Park 

 Crase, middle {cres) close ; Park Yenton, spring {fenten) close ; 

 Gweal Scawen, elder- tree {scawen) field; Gwealon, ash (ow) field; 

 Gwealnayne, the ((in) lamb {ean) field ; Gweal Lanchy, field by the 

 {d'n) house (chy)] Gweal an Vez, the outward field ; Gweal Darras, 

 field before the door {daras); Gweal Dren, thorn {draen) field; 

 Gweal Dues, sheep {devas) field; Gweal Yate, gate {yet) field; 

 Gweal Paul, pit {pol) or Paul's field ; Ero Fenton, spring {fenten) 

 field; Erra Penhale, moor {hal) head {pen) field; Erra Gear, camp 

 {caer) field. A few of the grossest corruptions of these may be 

 interesting. I find fields named Dry Sock, Dry Sack, and Dry 

 Suck; these are plain corruptions of Dreisic, brambly {dreisic) 

 [close]. Whale Drain is -Gweal Drean, thorn field; Clamp Park 



