Tre Pol and Pen

Tre Pol and Pen

The phrase Tre, Pol and Pen is used to describe people from or places in Cornwall, UK. The full rhyming couplet runs: "By Tre, Pol and Pen shall ye know all Cornishmen". [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AoHGzOKF0DYC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=Tre+Pol+and+Pen&source=web&ots=U92ST5qp1n&sig=RTwaIa48jIjqQ7EYATn1HTiI2Vw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Tre, Pol and Pen - The Cornish Family by Bernard Deacon] ] [ [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kernow/ Cornish surnames - By Tre, Pol and Pen shall ye know all Cornishmen] ] Many Cornish surnames and place names still retain these words as prefixes, such as the name Trelawny and the town of Polperro. "Tre" in the Cornish language means a settlement or homestead; "Pol", a pond, lake or well; and "Pen", a hill or headland.

Examples in Cornish surnames

*Richard Trevithick
*Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet
*David Penhaligon
*Edward William Wynne Pendarves

Examples in Cornish places

*Trethevy
*Polperro
*Penzance

ee also

*Cornish language

References


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