quently applied to female saints;" and he renders St. Mary Week, "sweet or beloved St. Mary." But Week is more probably from wick, quik, a village.
WEALE, WHEAL, WHEEL, WHILE. From wheal, huél, a work, i. e., a mine; or from some local name compounded thereof: as Wheal Whidden in Kea; Whealancarn, the rocky work or mine; Whealancoats, the work in the wood; Whealanvor, the work by the wayside, or the great work or mine; Whealreath, the red work, or the open work or mine; Whealrose (in St. Agnes), the mine in the vale. There are also Wheal Mary, Wheal Jewell, Wheal Fortune, &c.
WEARNE. See Warn.
WEDLOCK. See Vallack.
WEEKES, WEEKS. See Weaks.
WENDON. The same name as Wendyn, q. v.; or from Wendron, formerly Gwendron, in Kerrier hundred; from wen-, gwen-dron, the white hill.
WENDYN. A family mentioned by Gilbert as being from Compton Gifford in Devon; but perhaps originally of Cornish origin; from wyn-din, the white hill.
WENMOTH, WENTMOUTH. From wen-mot, the white place.
WENSENT. A Cornish form of Vincent.
WETTER. See Gwiator.
WETTON. When of Cornish origin, from gueth-don, the hill of rush.
WHEAL. See Weale.
WHEAR, WHEARE. From veor, great.
WHEEL. See Weale.
