A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF CORNISH PLACE-NAMES
Craig Weatherhill

Ever wonder where all those different sounding and sometimes hard to pronounce Cornish place names came from? The answers are all here. Most derive from the Cornish language, but many also have their roots in Old English, Middle English, French and other languages which have left their mark on Cornwall.
Through the tireless and exacting work of place-name specialists, the secrets of Cornish place-names are being unlocked for everyone. This dictionary offers in a concise fromat more than 3,300 place-names. It is the fruit of Craig Weatherhill's many years of research, not only of the meaning of the names themselves, but of considering the question of how best to represent those names in Revived Cornish.
Paperback, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 89 pages, $14.00