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The place-name Bruges is first mentioned as Bruggas, Brvggas, Brvccia in 840-875, then Bruciam, Bruociam in 892, Brutgis uico end 9th century, in portu Bruggensi around 1010, Bruggis in 1012, Bricge in 1037 ( Anglo-Saxon chronicle ), Brugensis in 1046, Brycge 1049-1052 ( ASC ), Brugias in 1072, Bruges in 1080-1085, Bruggas around 1084, Brugis in 1089, Brugge in 1116.
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And it is this, particularly the establishment of archaeology and place-name studies on a scientific basis, which are immediately pertinent to the Saxon Shore.
This, naturally, will be difficult to do since both the archaeological and place-name evidence in this period, with some fortunate exceptions, is insufficient for precise chronological purposes.
The place-name itself is Pictish, implying an origin in the Dark Ages: aber ' confluence '.
In many parts of England, " borough " is pronounced as an independent word, and as when a suffix of a place-name.
A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).
Asiago is clearly the same place-name as the numerous Azay, Aisy, Azé, Ezy in France, all from * Asiacum < Gaulish * Asiāko ( n )).
In many places in his Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey mixes British legend and his own imagination ; it is intriguing that he connects Ambrosius Aurelianus with this prehistoric monument as there is place-name evidence to connect Ambrosius with nearby Amesbury.
It is the only place-name in Normandy that can be interpreted as a-tun one ( English-ton ; cf.
The first probable record of his name is in two Egyptian inscriptions from the 14th and 13th centuries, as a place-name, Yhw in the region of Edom associated with Shashu-Bedouins ".
* a single " s " is often doubled, for example in the adjectival place-name ending which he often spells "- enssis "; this spelling is also used to represent the Arabic " sh ", a sound which Latin lacks, for example in the name Shawar which he spells " Ssauar ".
The St. Lawrence River is partly within the U. S. and as such is that country's sixth oldest surviving European place-name.
" It is the seventh oldest surviving English place-name in the U. S., first applied as " Chesepiook " by explorers heading north from the Roanoke Colony into a Chesapeake tributary in 1585 or 1586.
It is thus the eighth-oldest surviving English place-name in the United States.
The place-name, properly pronounced ' h ' LIG ' n ', and not the commonly heard ' HEL-i-gun ', is derived from the Cornish word < heligenn >, ' willow tree '.
" Maffick " is a back-formation from Mafeking, a place-name that was treated humorously as a gerund or participle.
The place-name Blithehale or Blythenhale, the earliest form of Bethnal Green, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon healh (' angle, nook, or corner ') and blithe (' happy, blithe '), or from a personal name Blitha.
The place-name Harlington is recorded in Anglo-Saxon as Hygereding tun: " Hygerǣd's people's farmstead ".
The place-name Botwell is also Anglo-Saxon ; Bote could mean either " healing " or a person's name ( Bota ), and waelle means a spring or well, so Botwell may mean either a " healing well " or " Bota's well ".
Years ago the district had also been called Ynys Gutrin in Welsh, that is the Island of Glass, and from these words the invading Saxons later coined the place-name ' Glastingebury '.
This place-name is derived of the English noble surname Albemarle, which is the French version of the medieval latinization Albamarla of the town Aumale in Normandy, France.
place-name and first
A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.
The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area on the western end of Long Island, also inhabited by a Native American people, the Lenape ( often referred to in contemporary colonial documents by the Lenape place-name for one of the larger native settlements :" Canarsee ").
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word " toponymy " first appeared in English in 1876 ; since then, toponym has come to replace " place-name " in professional discourse among toponymists.
The place-name ' Hindhead ' is first attested in 1571, and means ' hill frequented by hinds ', that is to say deer.
The place-name ' Cromer ' is first attested in 1297 and means ' Crows ' mere or lake '.
The place-name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means ' horse farm '.
In fact, the first record of the place-name occurs in the mid 13th century Chronicle of Mann, and the first description of the role and composition of an assembly held on-site occurs in the early 15th century.
Historically a part of Lancashire, Aigburth means " hill where oak trees grow " and is a hybrid place-name: the first part of the name is from Old Norse eikr " oak tree " ( which is found in Eikton in Cumbria and Eakring in Nottinghamshire ) and Old English beorg meaning " hill, tumulus " but here in the sense " rising ground ".
The place-name ' Witney ' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 969 as ' Wyttannige '; it appears as ' Witenie ' in the Domesday Book of 1086.
The place-name ' Bedlington ' is first attested c. 1050 in a biography of Saint Cuthbert, where it appears as ' Bedlingtun '.
The place-name ' Ottery St Mary ' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ' Otri ' and ' Otrei '.
The first word moel is a common Welsh place-name element meaning ' a bare hill '.
There is a wide variety of silica-undersaturated and peralkaline igneous rocks, including many informal place-name varieties named after the locations in which they were first discovered.
The place-name ' Blyth ' is first attested in 1130 as ' Blida ', and takes its name from the river Blyth.
The place-name ' Bradninch ' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ' Bradenese '; the name is thought to mean ' broad oak '.
The place-name ' Bucklebury ' is first attested in the Domesday Book, as ' Borgeldeberie ', which means ' Burghild's fortified place or borough ' (' Burghild ' is a woman's name ).
The place-name ' Driffield ' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, and means ' dirty ( manured ) field '.
The place-name ' Wickwar ' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ' Wichen ', meaning ' dairy farm or settlement '.
Fenn states that the place-name Croft was first recorded in 836, and is derived from the Old English cræft ' craft, a machine, engine '.
The place-name ' Stiffkey ' is first evidenced in the Domesday Book of 1086, and means ' stump island, island with stumps of trees '.
place-name and then
Celtic place-name in *- ākon “ place of ”, then, “ place belonging to, territory of ” > Old Welsh-auc ,-awg > Welsh-og.
Ling follows Capper's thesis concerning the connection between then place-name Bethany and the location there of an almshouse.
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