Tregethas (EN) / Tregethes (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
St Erth
Hundred: 
Penwith
Elements: 

kethes

Meaning: 
bondwoman, slave (female)

tre

Meaning: 
farmstead, settlement
Elements notes: 
tre 'farmstead, settlement' +kethes 'bondwoman, captive'
Historic forms: 
Tregrethes 1306, 1412, 1471, Tregrethys 1360, Tregarethes 1356, Tregrathes 1406.