Rock Arch | Lands End | Cornwall

Location: Lands End   |   Category: Coastline   |   Photograph Added: 12th January 2012 | Photo Reference: 3656

The rock arch known as Enys Dodnan is wonderful to look at and we have often wondered about the origin of the name. This is the explanation we found on the Internet "Enys = island, Dodman = turf
The Dodnan bit is from tonn meaning turf - the first letter has mutated to 'd' because ynys (Kernenwek Kemmyn spelling) is a feminine noun and then in about the 17th C a 'd' was inserted, in what is known as pre-occlusion, to turn it from donn to dodn"