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PATRONYMICA

PRETHOWAN. See Trethoan.

PREWBODY. See Trewbody.

PRICE. The Welsh name is said to be from Ap-Rice or -Rees, son of Rice or Rees; but both names may be from Cornish prâs, a meadow. Pryce, Pryse, Brice, and the U.S. Praise would seem to be the same name. See also Rees.

PRIDEAUX (found PRYDIAUX). This ancient family are said to trace their descent from Paganus, lord of Prideaux Castle in Luxilion; from French près d'eaux, near the waters, "the sea formerly flowing up as high as this place." I have elsewhere derived this name from pratellum, dim. of pratum, a meadow; but Tonkin thinks it may also be from pri, prid, clay, and aus, the same with als, the cliff or sea-shore. Cf. my notice of the name in Notes and Queries (2nd S., No. 52, p. 512). See also D. Gilbert (iii. 56); Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men; and Lower's Patronymica Britannica.

PRIN, PRINN, PRYN, PRYNN, PRYNNE, may be the Welsh name, and if so from Ap-Rhyn, son of Rhyn. But qu. the Cornish bryn, a mountain; pren, timber, wood; prîan, clayey ground, soft clayey veins of tin, &c. Also see Resprynn.

PROUSE. See Prowse.

PROWSE, PROUSE. From prâs, a meadow; or brâs, great. If from the Welsh, perhaps from Ap-Rowse.

PRYCE. See Price.

PRYDIAUX. See Prideaux.

PRYE. This name may mean a clayey place; from pri, clay.

PRYN, PRYNN, PRYNNE. See Prin.

PRYSE. See Price.

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