Pendewey (EN) / Bendui (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Bodmin
Hundred: 
Triggshire
Elements: 

-i

Meaning: 
stream suffix

ben

Meaning: 
foot (of a hill, stream)

du

Meaning: 
black
Elements notes: 
<ben> 'foot of' + <dui> stream name - 'black-water' {<du> 'black' + <-i> river suffix}
Historic forms: 
Bondeui 1201 (Gover, 1948) Bendewy juxta Bodminiam 1310 (Gover, 1948) Brendewy 1348 (Gover, 1948) Bendeuy 1402 (Gover, 1948) Pendewy 1658 (Gover, 1948)