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13 cent andlang Anglian base Bede belong Berks Billinge Birling charter Coldingham common compound DB form denote derivative of OE derived from OE district Domesday Book doubt Durh early forms East Essex Etymology obscure examples Geddinge gemære Gilling Gillingham Ginge Hagworthingham Hall Hants Hellquist hill hlinc Horbling i-mutation identical ingham ings Kent Lancashire Lancs late Lincolnshire Lincs ling London Mawer names in ingas OE form OE names OE pers Old English orig original OScand Ottringham Ouse palatalization PatR perhaps personal names place-names plausible possibly probably Roman road Saxon Scandinavian scylf second element seems Shimpling singular names Skeat Sompting Suff suffix Suffolk suggests Surr Surrey Suss Thames Thorpe trib tributaries village Wantage Waveney West Whittingham Willingham Worcs
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Page x - Two Compoti of the Lancashire and Cheshire Manors of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, AD 1294-6, 1304-5.
Page 41 - ... formed form the verb. *Soninges: Soninges DB. The place is lost; it was in Sutton Lathe, SW. of Deal. The name is identical with Sonning, Berks. Stelling (par., v., S. of Canterbury, 500 ft. above the sea, close to a Roman road): Stellinges DB, Stelling' 1275 HR, 1279 PW, Stelling 1291 TE.
Page 172 - ... Goth. asneis from asans. Addition of a pleonastic masculine za-suffix to an older suffix is so far as I know without parallel in Germanic languages. The suggestion that -ia might have been added to form derivatives from placenames in -ingas (Zachrisson, op. cit.) cannot, in my opinion, be accepted. There is no reason to ascribe a different meaning to the first element in Chillingham and Whittingham in Nhb. And we have no right to assume the existence, particularly in the West Midlands or in Cumberland,...
Page 148 - The first element must be connected in some way or other with OE last 'sole, track', OHG leist 'track, last', ON leistr 'foot, sock'.
Page 20 - brook') and Ciorringas '(the place of) Ciorra's people or descendants'. This explanation would suit Charing and Stowting extremely well. Names in -ing are not equally common in all parts of England. They are by far most frequent in Kent. It is a curious fact that Southern Hants has fairly many examples; this reminds us of the fact that the district was first taken possession of by Jutes.
Page 26 - The meaning of staking may be 'claim' or 'land fenced off with stakes'. Dial. stelling 'a place of shelter, a cattle-fold' (from stellan 'to place'). Stelling (par. Nhb., in a high situation): Stellyng c 1250 Mawer. ME *stintling (cf. dial. stinting 'a portion of a common meadow set apart for the use of one person') : le Stintlynghes (Dilham, NE. Nrf.) 13 cent. AD (C 966). ME stocking 'the uprooting of trees or plants', dial. stocking 'land reclaimed from the woods'.
Page x - Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney. Somerset Record Soc.
Page xiv - Cambridge, 1904. Skeat, WW: The Place-Names of Hertfordshire. Hertford, 1904. Skeat, WW: The Place-Names of Bedfordshire. Cambridge, 1906. Skeat, WW: The Place-Names of Berkshire. Oxford, 1911. Skeat, WW: The Place-Names of Suffolk. Cambridge, 1915.
Page 108 - was still, at the time of the Conquest, a belt some twenty miles in width, of forest, not yet opened up, except in a few scattered spots, for human settlement',58 sums up the traditional view.
Page 61 - Paling' 1275 HR, Palling (hd.), Paling, -ge (vil.) 1285, Poling (hd.), Paling (vil.) 1316 FA, Palyng 1296 Subs., Polyng 1341 IN. — In Anglia-Beiblatt, xxviii, p. 295, I suggest that Poling is a derivative of OE pal with a sense such as 'palisade'.