Why do places in cornwall start with tre

Ker yw! Mar ger avel safron! Bargen yw henna. Can you wrap it for me please? A yll'ta y vaylya ragov mar pleg? Keep the change! Gwith an mona! Cornish dialect Cornish dialect is still spoken although it is not heard as often as it was 20 years ago. Here are a few words: avee? Madder Do Er? Wozza Madder Withee? The following list has been contributed by Glyn Nicholas, who remembers these phrases being used in the s and s when he was growing up in Camborne.

Clemmed, or steeved with the cold. Where are you going? A bussa was a large earthenware jug used for fetching waster from the well or pump. Disobedient, stubborn. Greener than oxidised copper. Naughty, mischievous, disobedient. Said of a person or child: very smart, acute.

A cunning or unfathomable adult. Are you o. Scat to riddicks, or lerrups! Broken up, dismantled, destroyed. Gone scat. Hit it hard! Staring like a chad, or shad; a kind of fish. Black as a tinker!

Dirty from working. Said of someone resistant to hardship and hard work. Grey as a badger. Of hair. Too slaw catch cold! Describes a slow doer. Very damp or clammy. Taken to Bodmin jail. Put into the Asylum at Bodmin Feet like pasties. Big feet. A lazy man. Reluctant to go somewhere. Heavy rain. Said of a person of poor character. Very deaf. These derive from the Cornish language with Tre meaning homestead, Pol meaning pond, lake or well and Pen being a hill or headland.

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Finally, Pen is the Cornish for hill or headland. With the farm shop sitting on the brow of a hill on land locally known as Penscombe. So after much discussion it seems the name was written in the place names and geology that surrounded us. The migration of miners to the Liskeard and Callington districts in the early s did not fundamentally change the pattern.

It remains to be explained, given that Tre- placenames were scattered fairly evenly across Cornwall, why the surnames derived from them more likely to be found in west than east Cornwall. This must be related to the timing of surname formation and the cultural differences between English-speaking and Cornish-speaking communities.

In the latter, there was a greater tendency to retain or coin surnames based on places. But was this just a result of the different, later timing of surname formation in the west, or something more basic? Thanks for a particularly interesting post. I notice the migration from mining areas to the Caradon districts. In and two brothers in my family went from St Austell parish to marry sisters in North Hill.

It sounds as though this was a recognised direction of migration, though they subsequently lived back at Par, one by way of Bere Alston. On another tack, given the predicted decay of air travel I assume that pressure on Cornwall will increase. Is there anywhere a discussion group on the medium and long term future of Cornwall, in ICS, MK, or any other grouping, to face realistically the economic and social forces?

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