rock) is the name of a tin mine in St. Austell. Cf. Polglase.
GLAZON. See Glasson.
GLENCROSS. From glen-crous, the cross in the dale.
GLISSAN. From glâs-an, the green (place). See Treglissan.
GLUAS, GLUGAS, GLUYAS. From glew-glas, the moist or wet country; or from the parish of Gluvias in Kerrier hundred, named after the saint to whom the church was dedicated. Hals absurdly derives the parochial name from glewas, to hear.
GLYN, GLYNN. From Glin, Glynn, in the parish of Cardinham, where the family flourished for many generations; from glyn, a woody valley.
GOAD, GOATE. See Coode.
GODALCAN, GODOLCAN, GODOLGHAN, GODOLPHIN. Carew derives Godolphin from two Cornish words signifying "white eagle." Scawen says, "Godolphin in keeping still displayed abroad the white eagle, from the Cornish gothlugon." A correspondent of Notes and Queries observes, "It seems highly improbable that Carew should have given the explanation 'white eagle' without some grounds of apparent probability. First, the Cornish form of the name is Godolghan, Godolcan, or Godalcan: the last syllable may be can, white; godol or gedol may have been a Welsh or Cornish word unknown to the dictionaries signifying 'eagle' (probably as a descriptive epithet, etymologically combatant), even though we have no other voucher than Carew himself. That such a word, whatever the meaning, existed in Welsh, we may learn from the name of Cors-y-Gedol in Merioneth. Gilbert
