Patronymica Cornu-Britannica/E

by Richard Stephen Charnock

 

E.

 

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 Halwyn in Perranzabuloe; from hâl-wyn, the white moor or hill. The name Elwin may however be derived from the old Teutonic name Alwyn (whence Allen), from al-win, mighty conqueror; or from the name Adalwin, from adal-win, the noble conqueror.

ENDEAN, INDEAN. From head-dean, an old man; or perhaps rather from heân-din, the old fortified hill. Pryce translates the local name Tregandean, the men's dwelling (dên, the men).

ENNES, ENNIS, ENNYS, ENYS. From as estate in Cornwall still possessed by the family, to whom it belonged temp. Edw. III. (Lower.) From ennis, ynes, ynez, an island, peninsula. Hence perhaps sometimes Ince and Inch.

ERISEY, ERISY, anc. written ERISIE. From the manor and barton of Erisey in Grade, or the barton of Erisey or Herisey in Ruan Major. The name Erisey. says D. Gilbert, has been extinct about a century. Pryce translates Erisey, the dry acre; Parc Erisey, the dry field. In another place he renders Park Erissie, Parc-Erisy, the corn field, or dry acre on the bottom. Eri, erw, is a field, acre; and seyh is dry.

EUREN. From voren, strange, foreign; also a knave, scoundrel, jade.

EVA. From the parish of St. Ewe, var. Hewa, Hevh, and Eva, in Powdre hundred, named from St. Eva, the fem. of St. Ivo or Ivonis, i. e. St. John (the Baptist); from the Greek Ιωαννης.