'abnac' is not in any of the dictionaries of Cornish that I have [Rev Robt Williams or Miss M A Courtney], is it Breton or Gaelic? Perhaps a contraction including 'wednack' (being weedy)?
@trepolpen - whilst on the subject, in 1987, there was a vessel named Abinic, in Newlyn; PZ 512 (ex Lowestoft LT 44) [built 1967 in Belgium].
I may speak Cornish but this is a name that means nothing to me. I'm pretty sure, as Treeve says, that there's nothing like it in any dictionary. I could give as examples scores of likely corrupted forms but after all, any suggestions would be mere conjecture. Perhaps there was a farmer called Mr Abnac and so 'Abnac's Field'! 'Avalennek' means '[Apple] orchard' which is a very possible origin. In fact, I understand that all the mills in West Cornwall used apple wood for the water wheels etc. at one time and that Lamorna Valley was once full of apple trees. You didn't go scrumping around there on your youth did you, Tropicgal?
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