KNIYET, KNYVETT: Found written Knyvet, De Knyvet, Knivat, Knevett, De Knevet. Ferguson considers the name Knevett a diminutive of Cniva, an early Gothic name. Camden, with more reason, thinks Knyvett a corruption of Dunevit (Dunheved). Borlase is of opinion that the ancient Cornish local name Dunheved (near Launceston) is a Saxon compound, signifying "the head of the hill." According to Baxter, Dunevet is the same as Nemetotacium (properly, as in Ravennas, Nemetomagum), in which Br. Willis agrees, Nemet in Cornish being pronounced Nevet, and dun substituted for magus, for pagus, a town or village; further that dun-huedh signifies in Cornish "the swelling hill," but dun-hedh "the long hill;" from which latter circumstance he imagines it was called Lanceestre and Lancestre-town.