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Colwin
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Discussion of the name
Colwin is a masculine name of uncertain derivation but is perhaps an anglicized form of an Old Cornish name with guyn ‘white, fair, pleasant’ as the second element (Förster 1966: 46, 50 n41; von Feilitzen 1937: 218-19; cf. Padel 1985: 120).The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Colwin 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB.
Bibliography
Förster 1933: M. Förster, ‘The preliminary matter of the Exeter Book’, in Chapters on the Exeter Book, ed. R. W. Chambers, M. Förster and R. Flower (London, 1933)Padel 1985: O. J. Padel, Cornish Place-Name Elements (Nottingham, 1985)
von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937)
Forms of the name
Spellings in Domesday Book: Coluin(us)Forms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Coluin
Phillimore edition: Colwin
Alecto edition: Colwin