Words and Places: Or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and Geography

ancient name Anglo-Saxon Arabic bears the name Brittany Cambridge Cape castle Celtic Celtic names Celts century chapter chief church cloth coast College colony conquest contains Cornwall corruption Crown 8vo Cumberland Cymric Danes Danish denote Derbyshire derived Devon district Dorset elementary England English Erse Essex etymology Europe Extra fcap fcap forest France French Gadhelic Gaelic German Greek hill inclosure Indian Ireland island Isle Italian Italy Kent king Lake Lancashire land language large number Latin Lincolnshire London means miles modern mountain neighbourhood Norfolk Normandy Norse names North Norwegian Old High German original patronymic Phoenician Picts place called portion prefix probably Professor race River river-names Roman root Sanskrit Saxon Scandinavian Schools Sclavonic Scotland seems settlement shire Spain Spanish STREET suffix Suffolk Sussex takes its name Teutonic tion town trace treatise tribes valley village village-names Wales Welsh word Yorkshire