Korsenn an explanation?

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You may have wondered where the moniker Korsenn comes from?

Its from the old and now revived Cornish language for my surname of Reed. Due to the interesting research by my Fathers Cousin, back in the 1980’s into our respective Family Tree, She found the Reed’s and related Family names, (Baths, Spargos, Martins and Oppys), all go way back to 1548 and beyond, on my Fathers and Grandfathers side in the Stithians area of Cornwall. (Saying that don’t all family trees, open a vein and were all the same). My Partner being a fan of language and linguistics, has a Cornish dictionary which gives this word as the regular word for “rust” as well. So according to this hypothesises that it is a late form of a ‘gorsenn’, deriving from the word ‘korsenn’, which means ‘reed’, commenting that reed-beds often produce rusty looking soil?

So there you go, some may say a dubious claim, but a ‘rusty old reed bed’ sound’s fine to me as Im well at home with nature and landscapes!

Also after on-line searches for my potential korsenn name and being a hillwalking/mountaineering type, I noticed it’s also the name of a large Alpine mountain ridge called: Korsenn – Spitz 1955m (see below).  Which happens to be up in the German Alps and not up amongst the local Tors on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor, so Im not claiming that one, even if my ego would like to.

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“I claim this pointy piece of German Alp in the name of Korsenn Design”,…doh! Ego’s off daydreaming again.

(image of Korsenn – Spitz by courtesy of German mountaineer @: bergfex.de.tl/Schrocken.html).

 

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