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Mappa
Hwilas
A-Z
Asnodhow
EN
KW
Lafrowda
(EN)
/
Lannfrouder
(KW)
Type:
Settlement
Parish:
St Just
Hundred:
Penwith
Notes:
Church and land granted to Glasney College for the maintenance of a priest in 1335 P. Schrijver’s Studies in Celtic Historical Phonology (1995) suggests that breder may have been pronounced <ou>.
Elements:
breder
Meaning:
brothers
lann
Meaning:
enclosure
Elements notes:
lann 'enclosure, usually religious' + breder 'brothers'
Historic forms:
Lamfrouder 1335, Lafrowda 1732, 1768, 1780, 1790, 1810, 1825, 1841, 1845, 1884, Lafrouda 1842, 1876, Lafroudha, Lafrooder (undated)