Westmoreland (the land of the _Westmoringas_ or people of the Western moors); Gothland, in Sweden (the land of the Goths); Jutland (the land of the Getæ or Jutes, the Cimbric Chersonesus of the ancients). [Sidenote: LAR, LAAR, LEER (Old Ger.), LAER (A.S.), LATHAIR, or LAUER (Gadhelic),] a site, a bed; and in Germany, according to Buttmann, a field; in topography, synonymous with _lage_; _e.g._ Goslar (the site or field on the R. Gose), in Hanover; Somplar (marshy field); Wittlar (woody field); Dinklar (wheat field); Wetzlar, in Prussia, anc. _Wittlara_ (woody field); Wassarlar (watery field); Noordlaren (the northern site); Lahr (the site), a town in Baden. In Ireland this word takes the forms of _laragh_ and _lara_; _e.g._ Laraghleas (the site of the fort); Laraghshankill (of the old church). Lara, however, is sometimes a corrupt. of _Leath-rath_ (half rath), as in Laragh, in West Meath; and _laar_ and _lare_ often mean _middle_, as in Rosslare (the middle peninsula); Ennislare (the middle island); Latheron, in Caithness, is the site of the seal. [Sidenote: LAUF, LAUFEND (Ger.), LOOP (Dutch),] a current, a rapid, from _laufen_, Ger.; _hlaupen_, Scand.; _hleapen_, A.S. (to run, to leap); _e.g._ Laufen (the rapids), on the R. Salzach; Lauffenberg (the town near the rapids of the Rhine); Laufnitz (the leaping river); Lauffen (on the rapids of the R. Inn); Leixlip, in Ireland, Old Norse _Lax-hlaup_ (salmon-leap), on a cataract of the R. Liffey; Beck-loop (brook cataract), in Holland; Loop-Head, Co. Clare, Irish _Leim-Chon-Chuillerin_ (Cuchullin’s leap)--_v._ Joyce’s _Names of Places_. [Sidenote: LAW (A.S.), _hleaw_, LOW,] a hill, cognate with the Irish _lagh_; _e.g._ Houndslow (the dog’s hill); Ludlow (the people’s hill, _leod_); Greenlaw, in Berwickshire (the green hill)--the modern town is situated on a plain, but old Greenlaw was on a hill; Winslow (the hill of victory), in Berks; Marlow (the chalk or marshy hill); Wardlaw (guard hill); Hadlow, anc. _Haslow_ (hazel hill); Castlelaw, in the Lammermuir range, named from Roman camps on these hills; Sidlaw Hills (the south hills, in reference to their forming the southern boundary of Strathmore); Warmlow, Co. Worcester, anc. _Waermundes-hleau_ (the hill of Waermund, a personal name); Fala, a parish in Mid Lothian, abbreviated from _Fallaw_ (the speckled hill); Mintlaw, in Aberdeenshire, corrupt. from _Moan-alt-law_ (the hill at the moss burn). [Sidenote: LAYA (Sansc.),] an abode; _e.g._ Naglaya (the abode of snakes); the Himalaya Mountains (the abode of snow); Hurrial, for _Arayalaya_ (the abode of Hari or Vishnu). [Sidenote: LEAC (Gadhelic), LLECH (Cym.-Cel.),]