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PATRONYMICA

Pryce renders the local name Truthell, a barren moor (truath-hâl); or high town (tre-uhal); or entrance of the moor (treuth-hâl).

TRETHAWAN. See Trethoan.

TRETHEARTH, TRETHERDE. From tret-arth, the lofty dwelling. Hence the village of Earth in Carminow in Mawgan; from arth, high, lofty.

TRETHERDE. See Trethearth.

TRETHERFE. See Trethurffe.

TRETHERIS. From Tretheris in St. Allen; from tre-thres, the barren dwelling; or tre't-ar-is, the dwelling by the corn. Hals says there were extant at Tretheris the walls and ruins of an ancient free chapel and cemetery, built perhaps by the bishops of Cornwall and Exon, when they resided at the contiguous Lanher.

TRETHEWAY, TRETHEWEY, TRETHEWY. From Trethewey in Ruan Lanihorne, or Trethewy in Lanivet, or Trethevy in South Petherwin. Pryce renders Trethewy, the town by the water, or the holy town by the water (deu, God; thour, a river, brook; gy, vy, wy, water, river, brook). These names may also be from tre-thew-y, the dwelling by the dark water; or from tre-Dewy, the town of David. Hence the name Trewethy, and, by further corruption, Freathy, Freethy, Frethey.

TRETHINICK. Another orthography of Tredinnick, q. v.

TRETHOAN, TRETHOWAN, TRETHAWAN. From tre-thowa, the dwelling by the water, or tret-heân, the old dwelling; or perhaps rather from tre-town, the dwelling by a heap of sand. Hence the names Trethowoam and, by further corruption, Prethowan.

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