Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Cumenoran 821 BCS366 c.1200

• Cumanora 821 c.1240 ib

• (ad) Cumanoran 931 c.1200 ib

• Cumenoran 968 c.1200 ib

• Cuminora 1166 P

• Cumenor' 1201 Cur 1252 Ch

• Cummenore 1241 Ass

• Cumenhouere 1251–64 S c.1280

• Cunemore 1275–6 RH

• Comenore 1086 DB 1261–71 S c.1280 FA 1412

• Connor 1316 FA

• Cumner 1830 OS

Etymology

'*Cuma's hill-slope', v ōra , the village lies on gently rising ground. BCS 155, a spurious charter, names Cumma as abbot of Abingdon c. 730. The noun cuma means 'guest, stranger'.

For the forms Colmanora , Colmenoran , Colmonora , given under Cumnor in DEPN and Skeat, v. 462–3. It was recognised in Stenton (4) that this was the name of a piece of woodland appurtenant to the Abingdon estate, and Grundy also realised that it had no connection with Cumnor.