Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · A hamlet on Gillan Creek in St Anthony-in-Meneage parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW7724). · A hamlet in St Dennis parish, mid Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9558). · A hamlet and nearby beach in Veryan parish, on the south coast of Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9138).
Two main origins: * As a Cornish surname, from karn (“cairn”), from Proto-Brythonic *karn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos. * As a French surname, from the noun charnière (“hinge, joint”). Also, from chair (“flesh”).
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