GEDGE. See Quick.
GEER, GEERE. See Gear.
GERNIGAN. From carn-igans, twenty rocks. The name would also translate the little rock. There is a place called Gurnick in Crowan.
GERRANS. From a parish of the same name in Cornwall. From root of Garrance, q. v.
GERRESH. From some local name. Tonkin says, "adjoining to the barton of Gwerick in St. Allen is a tenement called the Gerras, that is, the summit or top, from its high situation, which I notice in this place on account of its lead mines." From root of Garrance or Gerrans, q. v.
GEVERS. Qu. from gavar, a goat.
GEW. Pryce renders gew, the stay, support; and says, on many estates (especially in the west) one of the best fields is called the Gew, probably from its being the support of the estate. There is a place called Gew in Crowan.
GIDDY, GIDEY. Giddy is an ancient Cornish family, formerly written Gedy, Geddey, Gidey, &c. "Possibly a nurse name of Gideon." (Lower.)
GILLY. From gilly, gelly, kelli, a grove. There is a place called Gilly in Mawgan, in Meneage.
GIST. From gest, gyst, a dog, properly a bitch. Hence the name Keast. Cf. the Irish names compounded of cu, con, a dog, used with sense of hero.
GLASS. From glaze, glase, green. Glas is the Cornish for a country.
GLASSON, GLAZON. From glaz-on, glaz-ûn, the green downs.
GLAZE. From glaze, glase, green. Carglaze (the green
