Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivationsBlackie, Christina
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Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations
Blackie, Christina
Names, Geographical
a harbour, from _haff_ (the ocean); _e.g._ Frische-haff
(freshwater haven); Kurische-haff (the harbour of the _Cures_, a
tribe); Ludwig’s-hafen (the harbour of Louis); Charles’s-haven,
Frederick’s-haven (named after their founders); Delfshaven (the
canal harbour); Vilshaven (the harbour at the mouth of the R. Vils);
Thorshaven (the harbour of Thor); Heiligenhaven (holy harbour); Hamburg
(the town of the harbour), formerly _Hochburi_ (high town); Soderhamm
(the south harbour); Osterhafen (east harbour); Ryehaven, in Sussex
(the harbour on the bank, _rive_); Milford-haven (the harbour of
Milford), the modern name of the Cel. _Aber-du-gledian_ (the confluence
of the two _swords_), a word applied to _streams_ by the ancient
Britons; Whitehaven, in Cumberland, according to Camden named from its
white cliffs; Stonehaven (the harbour of the rock), in allusion to
the projecting rock which shelters the harbour; Newhaven, Co. Sussex,
in allusion to the new harbour made in 1713--its former name was
_Meeching_; Newhaven, Co. Edinburgh, named in contradistinction from
the old harbour at Leith.
[Sidenote: HAG, HAGEN (Teut. and Scand.),
HAIGH, HAY, HAIN,]
an enclosure, literally a place surrounded by a hedge, cognate with
the Celtic _cae_; _e.g._ Hagen, in Germany, and La Haye, Les Hayes,
and Hawes (the enclosures), in France, Belgium, and England; Hagenbach
(the hedged-in brook); Hagenbrunn (the enclosed well); Hagueneau (the
enclosed meadow), a town in Germany; Fotheringay (probably originally
an enclosure for fodder or fother); The Hague, Ger. _Gravenhage_ (the
duke’s enclosure, originally a hunting-seat of the Princes of Orange);
Hain-Grossen (the great enclosure); Jacob’s-hagen (James’s enclosure),
in Pomerania; Urishay (the enclosure of Uris), in Hereford; Haigh and
Haywood (the enclosed wood), in Lancashire.
[Sidenote: HAGO, HEGY (Hung.),]
a hill; _e.g._ Kiraly-hago (the king’s hill); Szarhegy (the emperor’s
hill).
[Sidenote: HAI (Chinese),]
the sea; _e.g._ Hoanghai (the yellow sea); Nankai (the southern sea).
[Sidenote: HAIDE, or HEIDE (Teut.),]
a heath or wild wood; _e.g._ Falkenheid (the falcon’s wood);
Birchenheide (the birch-wood); Hohenheid and Hochheyd (high heath);
Hatfield, Hadleigh, Hatherley, and Hatherleigh (the heathy field or
meadow); Hadlow (heath hill); Haidecke (heath corner); Heydecapelle
(the chapel on the heath), in Holland.
[Sidenote: HAIN (Ger.),]
a grove or thicket; _e.g._ Wildenhain (the wild beasts’ thicket);
Wilhelmshain (William’s grove or thicket); Langenhain (long thicket);
Grossenhain (the thick grove).
[Sidenote: HALDE (Ger.),]
a declivity, cognate with _hald_, Scand. (a rock); _e.g._ Leimhalde
(clayey declivity); Frederick’s-hald, in Norway, so named by Frederick
III. in 1665. Its old name was simply _Halden_ (on the declivity).
[Sidenote: HALL, or ALH (Teut.),
HEAL (A.S.),]
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