Cornwall, whose fort or castle it was"! In Domesday, 20 Wm. I. (1087), this place was taxed under the name of Dune-cheine. Tonkin says "tin is the same as din, dinas, dixeth, deceit; so that Tindixeth, turned for the easier pronunciation to Tintagel, Dindagel, or Daundagel, signifies the Castle of Deceit, which name might be aptly given to it from the famous deceit practised here by Uter Pendragon, by the help of Merlin's enchantment." Pryce renders "Tintagell (now Tintagel), the modern name of Dundagell, Dundagel, the castle of deceit (tin, din, a fortified place or castle)."
DUNGAY, DUNGEY. From from dun-ke, the hill enclosed by a hedge or fence; or dun-kea, the hedge enclosure. Tungay may be the same name.
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EDEVEAIN, EDYVANE, EDYVEAIN, EDYVEAN, EDYFYN. This name may mean the little bottom or valley (izy-vean); or the valley of stones (vyin, vyyn, pl. of maen, a stone); or, as the earliest orthography is said to have been Edyfyn, it would translate "the spring in the valley" (izy-fyn). It would also corrupt from a French form of Edwin.
ELLARY, ELLERY. Perhaps from the manor of Elerky (found Elerchy, in Domesday Elerchi) in Veryan; from elerch-chy, the swan's house. Lower makes Ellery a corruption of Hilary.
ELWIN. From Hallwyn in St. Issey; or the manor of
