Considering that Cornwall is at the end of a long tapering peninsula, many scholars have adopted this derivation for the Cornish Cornovii: Victor Watts in the Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names (2010), for instance, derives it from a postulated original tribal name *Cornowii, "the people of the horn".
Scholars have proposed that the name "Cornwall" originates from a hypothetical ancestral tribe called *Cornowii, which translates to "the people residing at the horn".