Etymology

Trevelyan

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Today it means: A surname from Cornish. Full definition →

Cornish trev
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The story

  1. Cornish · derived fromtrev“farmstead; town”
  2. English todayTrevelyan

From Cornish trev (“farmstead; town”) + the Cornish personal name Elyan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.