Cornish Place-Name Elements

£40.00

The dictionary of Cornish Place Name elements by O.J. Padel, an invaluable reference book for all those interested in Cornish place names.

Contains an alphabetical list of elements followed by, for each element, its meaning, a commentary and examples of place names containing it as well as an alphabetical index of Cornish Place Names, Welsh and Breton cognates for the elements plus maps of the location of tre, bod and ker place names in Cornwall.

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Published by the English Place-Name Society in 1985, this comprehensive 349 page book contains an alphabetical list of place name elements followed by, for each element, its meaning, a commentary and examples of place names containing it as well as an alphabetical index of Cornish Place Names, and Welsh and Breton cognates plus maps of the location of tre, bod and ker place names in Cornwall.

A hardback, dark blue cloth cover with gilt lettering on the spine, no dustwrapper.

A first edition in fine condition

Signed FBJ Coombes, Reverend Frederick Brian John Coombes, former Grand Bard of Gorseth Kernow and scholar of Cornish language and history.