Editing Cornwall (section)

== <span id=Toponymy>Name</span> ==
[[File:Saxon England according to the Saxon Chronicle.jpg|thumb|"Cornweallas" shown on an early 19th-century map of "Saxon England" (and Wales) based on the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''.]]
[[File:Land's End, Cornwall, England.jpg|thumb|right| Cliffs at Land's End]]
The modern [[English language|English]] name "Cornwall" is a [[Compound (linguistics)|compound]] of two terms coming from two different language groups:
*"Corn-" originates from the [[Proto-Celtic language|Proto-Celtic]] ''*kornu''- ("[[Wiktionary:horn|horn]]", presumed in reference to "[[headland]]"), and is [[cognate]] with the [[English language|English]] word "horn" and [[Latin language|Latin]] "cornu" (both deriving from the [[Proto-Indo-European]] *ḱerh₂-). There may also have been an Iron Age group that occupied the Cornish peninsula known as the ''[[Cornovii (Cornwall)|Cornovii]]'' (i.e. "people of the horn or headland").<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cornwall |title=Cornwall |dictionary=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=21 May 2013 |date= |archive-date=27 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091845/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cornwall |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=horn&searchmode=none |title=Horn |dictionary=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=21 May 2013 |date= |archive-date=27 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091746/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=horn&searchmode=none |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Payton |first=Philip |author-link =Philip Payton |title=Cornwall: a history |edition=revised |publisher=Cornwall Editions Ltd |location=Fowey |year=2004 |isbn=1-904880-00-2}}</ref><ref>[[Charles Thomas (historian)|Charles Thomas]]. (1986). ''Celtic Britain''. (Ancient Peoples & Places Series.) London: Thames & Hudson</ref>{{efn|[[Eilert Ekwall]] who studied the place-names of England in the 1930s and 40s gives the following forms: Cornubia in Vita Melori &c.; Middle Welsh Cerniu; Welsh Cernyw; Cornish: Kernow; (on) Cornwalum ASC 891; Cornwealum ASC(E) 997; "The Brit name goes back to *Cornavia probably derived from the tribal name Cornovii. OE Cornwealas means 'the Welsh in Cornwall' this folk-name later became the name of the district".<ref>Ekwall, E., ''The Concise Dictionary of English Place-names'', 2nd ed., 1940, p. 117a.</ref>}}
*"-wall" derives from {{lang|ang|[[Walhaz|wealh]]}}, an [[Exonym and endonym|exonym]] in [[Old English]] meaning "foreigner", "slave" or "Brittonic-speaker" (as in [[Welsh person|Welsh]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornish History – Stone Age to Present Day |url=https://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history#:~:text=The%20name%20Cornwall%20is%20most,name%20of%20the%20country%20Wales. |website=www.cornwalls.co.uk |access-date=17 January 2022}}</ref>

In the [[Cornish language]], Cornwall is ''Kernow'' which stems from the same [[Proto-Celtic]] root.
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The [[Ravenna Cosmography]] (c. AD 700) mentions a [[civitas]] named ''Purocoronavis'' in the locality. This is most likely a corruption of ''Duro-'''cornov'''-ium'', meaning 'fort of the Cornovii people'.<ref>Payton (2004), p. 50.</ref> The exact location of Durocornovium is disputed, with [[Tintagel]] and [[Carn Brea, Redruth|Carn Brea]] suggested as possible sites.<ref name=walesornot>{{cite web|url = http://glosbe.com/en/br/west|publisher=The History Files|title = Kingdoms of British Celts – Cornubia|access-date = 1 December 2007}}</ref>-->