English Explanatory Dictionary

Lelant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A coastal village in St Ives parish, western Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW5437).

Word forms

Lelant

Etymology

From Cornish Lannanta, from lann Anta (“church-site of Anta”), from Proto-Brythonic *llann (“churchyard”). Anta was a Cornish saint, whose name was transcribed by Cornish historian Charles Henderson as British Latin Anta, Ansa.

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