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PATRONYMICA

TREVAILOR. From Trevailler in Madderne; from tre-vailer, -vayler, the workman's town.

TREVALGA. From the manor of Trevalga (in Domesday, Trevaga or Trevalga) in Lesnewith hundred, which Tonkin derives "from trev-alga, the noble house; alga signifying noble, as in Inis Alga, an old name for Ireland." Pryce more correctly renders Trevalga, Trevalgy, "the town of defence, or walled town near the water" (val, gual, a wall).

TREVALLION, TREVALYAN. From tre-gual-an, the wall or fence dwelling; or the same as Trevillion. See Trevelyan.

TREVAN, TREWAN. From truan, truin, truyn, trevan, a promontory, lit. a nose; or from tre-van, the dwelling on a hill, or the high dwelling.

TREVANON. See Trevannion.

TREVANNANCE. From Trevannance in St. Agnes. Hals gives an absurd etymology. Tonkin writes the local name Trevannence, which he translates "the town in a valley of springs;" but the name is rather from tre-vown-nance, the dwelling in a deep valley.

TREVANNING. See Trevannion.

TREVANNION, var. TREVANION, TREVANNING; anc. Treuanian and Treuagnian. The name is said to mean a town in a hollow plain or valley (uag, a hollow). [There is a place called Trevanin in St. Breock.] Richards (W. Dict.) derives Trefannian from tref-annian; from Annian, an ancient proprietor of the land; and he says the tres in Cornwall were for the most part only single houses, and the word subjoined only the name of a Briton who was once the proprietor; thus Tref-Erbin, Tref-

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