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Post by Mal on Nov 20, 2008 18:39:50 GMT -5
Should it be Vellanoweth or Mellanoweth?
What does this mean?
"New mill" at a guess?
or "Wheal an noweth", new mine?
Any ideas?
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Nov 20, 2008 22:24:41 GMT -5
Most definitely VELLANOWETH although the following is interesting:-
From G. Pawley White
VELLANOWETH - From (m)velyn-noweth, new mill. Place name Vellanoweth, Ludgvan and St Agnes. Vellanouth, Constantine.
CT
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Post by londoner on Dec 14, 2008 13:32:20 GMT -5
Also Mill on the hill according to a Vellenoweth descendant!
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Post by Zenobia on Feb 15, 2009 21:50:40 GMT -5
Both letters would be correct.
M and V are interchangeable in Cornish, due to mutations. The Welsh language does the same.
It would be New Mill.
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Post by Mal on Feb 16, 2009 11:47:08 GMT -5
Just checked in my Cornish English dictionary, the reason for the M and V variation is that in the Cornish language placenames with M-words often mutated to V. Vellenoweth would be Mellenoweth were it not derived from a placename, which Zenobia correctly states as New Mill.
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