Subject: RE: new one
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 13:51:23 -0000




I wrote


>> "Cwm" (pronounced "coom") is Welsh for a narrow valley or hollow in 
>> the hills, with a stream running through the valley bottom obviously. 
>> The Cornish connection makes perfect sense because a language similar 
>> to Welsh was spoken in Cornwall for thousands of years, right up 
>> until the 19th Century, and many place names in Cornwall are clearly 
>> not in the English language. 
 

and Lorax says 

 
> Like Land's End is also called Pen Von Las, or something similar.


Penwith, Perranporth, Bodmin, these could all be Welsh place names,
but they're in Cornwall  -  or Kernow, to give its Cornish, not
its English, name.  

Anybody called Coomb, or Coombes, or Coomber, or anything like that,
probably had an ancestor who lived in a shack in a hollow in the hills,
either in Wales or in Kernow. People would say "there goes Dan from 
the cwm".


Dave C