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".
The origin of "Cornwall" as derived from "*Cornowii", signifying "the inhabitants of the horn", is widely accepted among researchers, owing to its connection with the region's distinctive shape.